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>Which is another way of saying "expensive certificates".

True, basically eIDAS is a cartel. With the help of EU legislation, some Certification Authorities banded together and are now saying that certificates emited by anyone but them are not good. And obviously they fully controll the pricing for the "good" certificates.

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> True, basically eIDAS is a cartel. With the help of EU legislation, some Certification Authorities banded together and are now saying that certificates emited by anyone but them are not good

For very specific needs like electronic signatures, "seals" and an interesting one I hadn't heard before, timestamping (proving that an electronic document has existed at that timestamp), not for general computing.

Also, considering Bulgaria has 5 CAs on the official list, with 2 others as potential, the claims of a shady cartel of "big Cert" being behind this is laughable.

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