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That text is almost a year old. The recent trilogue negotiations added paragraph 45(2a) which is not public yet (hence the complaints about secrecy) but is alluded to in the open letter (https://eidas-open-letter.org):

> The proposed legislation also prevents the introduction of security checks when verifying the certificates used for encrypted web traffic in Art 45, (2a). As written, this language requires that the EU’s website certificates not be subjected to any mandatory requirements beyond those specified in ETSI standards.

This is awful, as it would forbid browsers from requiring Certificate Transparency, or banning a weak hash algorithm (like SHA-1), or requiring post-quantum keys unless the EU agrees to it.



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