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Comment by galadran

Ah, the sins are more to do with the design of 2-QWACs.

All the design needed was for the browser to check the TLS cert and the QWAC cert covered the same domain name. Instead, folks at ETSI insisted very stubbornly on the signature from the QWAC over the cert used in TLS - which is an annoying complication for site operators - and provides little additional benefit.

I'd also like to see the EU encode more information in these certs. Knowing a company's address is not very useful (IMO), but a machine readable label that the site is regulated by $COUNTRY_NAME financial or medical regulator would be a much more useful signal.

Good luck in your endeavours!

parent galadran 4 days ago

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