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How could digitial age verification be possibly implemented with privacy in mind? (self.programming)

submitted 1 week ago by onlinepersona to c/programming

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Many might've seen the Australian ban of social media for <16 y.o with no idea of how to implement it. There have been mentions of "double blind age verification", but I can't find any information on it.

Out of curiosity, how would you implement this with privacy in mind if you really had to?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Homomorphic encryption (zero knowledge cryptography) is a known solution to this problem.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/96232/zkp-prove-that-18-while-hiding-age

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

sounds too simple bro, what it needs is more blockchain /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

You seem to be joking but ZK and Homomorphic encryption don’t necessarily need to involve blockchain but they can.

This is like someone mentioning UUID’s and you leave a weird sarcastic comment about databases (and everyone suddenly villainizing them due to them being used for scams).

[–] PoolloverNathan 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe they were referring to last year's trend of blockchain being introduced to everything unnecessarily (as a marketing buzzword, similar to AI).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I got the joke. What I didn’t get is why it was even remotely relevant to the discussion at hand since ZK is used a lot in crypto but it’s also used everywhere else. It muddied the waters and made the joke somewhat nonsensical, IMO. Perhaps OP was unaware of how prevalent ZK is in the crypto world…

Oh well. Have a good day.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You say you got the joke, but everything else you said suggests you didn't. Just to be clear I wasn't being critical of your reply, I was mocking the cryptobros the other poster mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was a vapid, low effort, hiveminded Reddit joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

looks at post history I mean lazy as my joke was, now I understand how you got so upset about it.