Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours agoI dont see how the second cert that goes to the site is useful if it isnt still associated with the first, but I also wouldnt trust the state to abide by an untraceable standard to begin with because identifying individuals by their accounts is in their interest.
I get where the enthusiasm for cryptography is coming from, but I think it’s misplaced.
Kraiden@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Oh 100% I do not trust the current govt. to do this properly! Like I’ve said elsewhere today, I just want people to know that it IS possible, and the idea that you HAVE to give up privacy to keep kids safe online is a false dilemma.
As for the second certs usefulness, it’s got enough information in it to prove that the parent cert was issued by a trusted issuer. It’s like a stamp of approval. A really bad analogy is if I take an official birth certificate, and cut it up in such a way that the official seal and the year are still connected by a thread of paper. You can tell that it was an official document issued to someone born in 1990 for example, but nothing else. Again, that’s a really bad analogy because it’s not a new cert, and contains the birth year, so it’s not the same.
This is all based on something called Zero Knowledge Proofs, that I don’t even pretend to completely understand, but it’s a whole field of study, meant to solve exactly this kind of problem. Currently watching this myself