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mrobyesterday at 1:05 PM1 replyview on HN

The people proposing these laws presumably think imperfect enforcement is better than no enforcement at all. In the non-zero-knowledge case, it's possible to revoke falsely shared credentials.


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Aurornisyesterday at 4:26 PM

> In the non-zero-knowledge case, it's possible to revoke falsely shared credentials.

In a true zero-knowledge system sharing falsely shared credentials becomes easy because it’s untraceable. If the proof has no knowledge attached, you can’t conclude who used their credentials on a website that generates proof-of-age tokens on demand for visitors.

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