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I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility o

I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. Although it seems like it should limit it to giving you only a few certs a month. But then bad actors could start buying those certs from people themselves. Still would make it much harder to spam requests.

graypegg 3y ago
I could totally imagine Verisign or something doing this. Imagine a world where you have to pay a yearly renewal fee to keep your humanity. They’d love it. Of course, it’s not a claim that the user is a human, but rather the user has a slightly difficult to obtain certificate that had to be requested by a human. Could slow spam down though.
shkkmo 3y ago
> a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. The best you can do is pseudonymity. If the attestations are completely anonymous then you have no way of dealing with bad actors, like those who sell their digital identity to spammers.
noAnswer 3y ago
> I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. This is possible with the German identity card. (I have no idea but my guess would be that this is possible with other identity cards from Europe or around the world too.) You can even make age checks with out transmitting the actual birthday. It just returns whether the card holder has or is above the age in question. You can't cross reference those certs with other sites. It really grinds my gears if a identity check wants a video call or what ever instead of them using eID features.

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I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility o

by mewpmewp2 3y ago

graypegg 3y ago
I could totally imagine Verisign or something doing this. Imagine a world where you have to pay a yearly renewal fee to keep your humanity. They’d love it. Of course, it’s not a claim that the user is a human, but rather the user has a slightly difficult to obtain certificate that had to be requested by a human. Could slow spam down though.
shkkmo 3y ago
> a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. The best you can do is pseudonymity. If the attestations are completely anonymous then you have no way of dealing with bad actors, like those who sell their digital identity to spammers.
noAnswer 3y ago
> I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. This is possible with the German identity card. (I have no idea but my guess would be that this is possible with other identity cards from Europe or around the world too.) You can even make age checks with out transmitting the actual birthday. It just returns whether the card holder has or is above the age in question. You can't cross reference those certs with other sites. It really grinds my gears if a identity check wants a video call or what ever instead of them using eID features.