EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
Not sure that’s necessarily true. I don’t see why it couldn’t work like this:
request personal token from authority. it works similar to a certificate chain, your token is derived from a central certificate
you store your token locally
you visit an age-restricted website. you send your token (or a challenge encrypted with that token) back to the website
the website verifies your token with the certificate from the authority, (like how literal Certificate Authorities work) . the CA doesn’t know when or why your token was used.
(fwiw I am sure governments will try their best to make this process less private)
Your step 4 will make the token reusable, or at least reusable within a time frame. If a token can only be used once there has to be some information flow back to a central approval authority.
Not sure that’s necessarily true. I don’t see why it couldn’t work like this:
(fwiw I am sure governments will try their best to make this process less private)
Your step 4 will make the token reusable, or at least reusable within a time frame. If a token can only be used once there has to be some information flow back to a central approval authority.