From guaranteed signature to "click-to-sign"

The Slovak context has been shaped by the European regulation of electronic signatures and subsequent national laws, which put the qualified electronic signature on a par with a handwritten one. The intention was clear: to ensure integrity, authenticity, non-repudiation, and proof of the time of the act, even though each act requires these assurances to a different degree. "Click-to-sign" emerged as a response to the inconvenience of readers and cards, but its legislative framing leveled different authorization methods to a single tier. The result was uncertainty: the same "paper" weight for tools with unequal security and a weak willingness of authorities to go below the level of QES.