They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election
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  • doylio@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    PGP isn’t tied to a specific person though.

    I’m starting to come around to the idea of gov’t backed crypto ID, but I am very worried about the potential abuse of that system

      • doylio@lemmy.caEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yes, but it’s not Sybil resistant. Anyone can make as many PGP Keys as they want.

        What is really needed is the ability to sign messages proving:

        • that I am a specific person (“I am John Smith”)
        • that I am a unique person without revealing my ID (“I only have one account here”)
        • attributes about me without revealing my ID (“I am 18+”, “I am a French Citizen”, etc)

        This is all possible with ZK cryptography today if you have a trusted data source for the key storage. Governments might be able to set something like this up, but that comes with a lot of privacy concerns. There are other projects like WorldCoin, Idena, and Proof of Humanity that attempt to do this in a decentralized way, but they’ve all had issues with adoption