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Website generates a random nounce, the government offers to sign the json { over_18: true, nounce: [inserted_here] }. That signing is coupled to you being signe
by wongarsu 3mo ago
Website generates a random nounce, the government offers to sign the json { over_18: true, nounce: [inserted_here] }. That signing is coupled to you being signed in, or scanning your passport via nfc or whatever
That significantly reduces the leaked information: the service doesn't receive any information who you are, and the government doesn't know what service you use. They can collude, but that does not reveal more to them than most current age-verification methods. Children can get another adult to sign their request, but that's a working attack on nearly any age verification (including in-person purchases)
Of course this doesn't replace parenting
- giantg2 3mo ago"They can collude, but that does not reveal more to them than most current age-verification methods." Or just correlate the IP.
- HDBaseT 3mo agoThe word nounce is used to describe a sex offender, at least in the UK.
- klondike_klive 3mo agoSpecifically a child molester.
- EmbarrassedHelp 3mo agoThat's how members of the UK government refer to anyone that supports privacy and encryption
- slater 3mo ago*nonce
- antonvs 3mo ago> or scanning your passport You’re not helping.