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So these attempts by governments to introduce online age verification requirements, are these going to use zero knowledge proofs?

Are they trying to sell this by floating the idea that you can prove your age while still remaining "anonymous" in some sense or another?

From what I'm reading, it seems that zk proofs won't really work to achieve this in any truly meaningful way. See for example this for a critique:

https://brave.com/blog/zkp-age-verification-limits/

Does anybody have any insights into what's going on here?

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mleku · 1w

zkp would allow this if it was designed right. if it was just one bit. but age limits vary and birthdays are quite distinct.

Laeserin · 1w

Yes, the EU idea is that each national government has a digital ID wallet app you can download, and that generates cryptographic tokens saying you are a person over a particular age, residing in a particular country, etc.

Laeserin · 1w

The article you shared isn't particular negative about zkp. You must be referring to some other article. Also, it assumes that the zkp is coming from a company, not a state ID agency. It doesn't cover the use case for those of us who already have digital IDs, which is almost everyone, including mos...

Fabio Bonfiglio · 1w

Centralizing the credentials issuance is the risk factor here. Nothing to do with ZKP itself. Build a system where credentials are replace by WoT and users generates proofs themselves, based on regularly published anchors, that is the most probable solution. And it is exactly what #SISTR aims to bu...