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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by tzs on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:54PM (#46840740)
The EU has been working on a zero knowledge system as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet project for a few years now. It is currently undergoing large scale field tests in several countries with expected release late this year. All member states are required to provide at least one free secure interoperable implementation to their citizens, and regulated industries such as banks and telecoms, are required to accept it. If a member state passes a law requiring age verification on social media it must include the EU Digital Identity Wallet as one of the verification methods the site must support.

What was that about no government would consider zero knowledge to be robust enough?

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by nate_meurer on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:33PM (#46841592)
Which of these governments do you trust? The same governments, mind you, that are working diligently to end anonymity on the Internet.
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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by numeri on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:00PM (#46850272)
Introducing a solid zero-knowledge age verification option is the opposite direction of ending anonymity in the Internet, which other parts of the same governments are also working on.

So yeah, I'll gladly trust and cheer on the part working in the right direction.

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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by Fervicus on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:19AM (#46843841)
Same EU that wants to ban encryption?
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Re:Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban o... by Mindwipe on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:53AM (#46845218)
The EU Digital Identity Wallet isn't zero knowledge. I mean it's just not. It relies on Google Play Integrity Attestation on Android and the iOS equivalent on Apple devices because those give it a revocation mechanism, and those aren't zero knowledge.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

It says that it wants to be zero knowledge, but it has no zero knowledge implementation and no plan of how it even possibly could be zero knowledge, and it never will precisely because that is incompatible with the revocation requirements set down by the EU.

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