Zero Knowledge is more secure. Government signs a credential confirming date of birth and gives that to the citizen.
Citizen can then use that to create a proof they were born before date X. Verifier only sees the proof and the Government signature.
No need to trust 3rd party websites.
The problem there is that requires the government to do some of the work, and they don’t want to. They want to sell this to the public as them being tough, but they definitely don’t want it to cost any money.
This will be implemented in the most sketchy short-sighted way possible, I guarantee it
The dob credential could verified and issued by anyone. But you may have more confidence in a government signature than a private company or known individual.
I would never touch any of these telemetry websites anymore because this is definitely going to be used to fingerprint you.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I was basically after that same concept - create that credential, and have the website only verify it’s legit and nothing else.
I think my example of how it’s currently done for basically everything in Finland just confused people, I wasn’t suggesting every country implements adult age checks with their banks.