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      9 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

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          9 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