It is in theory possible to craft better-signed PDFs that would pass the European eIDAS Qualified Electronic Signature requirements.
But in general the ASiC-E container format is more versatile and also more robust against potential flaws.
But in general the ASiC-E container format is more versatile and also more robust against potential flaws.
Is there any wide use of ASiC?
For now, I'd expect ever increasing compliance with eIDAS in the future. PDFz are also not the only thing that people want to sign, that's where an agnostic container format has its benefits.
> Is there any wide use of ASiC?
I know that at least Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland have deployed it. Of those Estonia probably has the widest and longest use of it, as they migrated *to* ASiC-E, having used the predecessors BDOC and CDOC previously.