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No it wouldn't? You're confusing ZKPs with having identities tied to a real-world person.
by blep_ 4y ago
No it wouldn't? You're confusing ZKPs with having identities tied to a real-world person.
- k__ 4y agoThis is what verifiable credentials are about.
- smt88 4y agoGlassdoor could not verify credentials without unmasking the user. There is no zero-knowledge way to accomplish this.
- k__ 4y agoThey could verify that it's a real person without knowing which person.
- smt88 4y agoHow? Please be specific. What would the user send to Glassdoor and how would Glassdoor use it to prove that the user is a single, living human?
- smt88 4y agoI see this discussion ends where all crypto/Web3 proponents end it: discussion of specifics. Crypto seems to be great when waving problems away, but no one seems to be able to give implementation details.
- k__ 4y agoWhat's the missing detail here? There are a bunch of authorities that proof you're a human already. They give you passport and the like. There is nothing prohibiting them from giving you a verifiable credential in addition of a passport. Also, there are services that proof your humanity all over the internet. Letting them give out verifiable credentials and asking Glassdoor to accept them as trusted credential issuer is the easy part here. Glassdoor can either check the signature of such a credential or, in the ZKP case, you proof them that you have such a credential without revealing it.
- blep_ 4y ago> Letting them give out verifiable credentials and asking Glassdoor to accept them as trusted credential issuer is the easy part here. Getting people to adopt your thing is the hard part. The rest is just PKI, we know how to do PKI.
- smt88 4y ago> There are a bunch of authorities that proof you're a human already. They give you passport and the like. There is nothing prohibiting them from giving you a verifiable credential in addition of a passport. Except they don't do that today, at least in Glassdoor's biggest market (the US). And anyway, all you prove with a credential is that the person is holding a valid credential. You have no idea if it was stolen. If you used social security numbers for this, for example, a single person could have posted millions of reviews on Glassdoor. > Also, there are services that proof your humanity all over the internet. Which ones? The only services that do this are the government and credit bureaus, so the digital services all have to tie in to one of those things. That means that someone is getting your real identity, which doesn't prevent the type of subpoena we're talking about in this case. And on top of that, those identity checks can be anywhere from $1 to $20. There's no way Glassdoor would survive that.
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