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EGreg 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to pr...

Google has pioneered a few technologies where they are the trusted dealer. For example, Private State Tokens.

I have written a paper on how to do age verification in a completely privacy-preserving way, and it doesn’t even need zero-knowledge proofs:

https://magarshak.com/papers/Personal.pdf

xinayder 32 days ago [–]

How about not needing to do age verification?

EGreg 32 days ago | [–]

Then I guess you'll be violating laws.

I'm talking about complying with laws, in a privacy-preserving way. It's possible.

Here, I posted it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760492

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