You don't need to belittle someone else's work. It's a series of articles, and author has 2 more articles that aren't related to articles Ciechanowski wrote at all.
Yeah...he even alludes to it in his APFS section: "hey I talked about all those other filesystems so I can talk about what I really want to talk about...how awesome I think APFS is".
> The solution leverages the existing eIDAS infrastructure, including eIDAS nodes and the trust framework for trusted services, to ensure a high level of security and reliability. By aligning with the technical architecture of the EU Digital Identity Wallet ARF, the solution delivers secure, reusable, and interoperable proofs of age.
> The solution enables users to present their Proof of Age attestation to Relying Parties, primarily for online use cases. The system is optimised for secure and privacy-preserving online presentation, allowing users to prove their eligibility without disclosing unnecessary personal information.
> AVI SHOULD support the generation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs using the solution detailed in: "Matteo Frigo and abhi shelat, Anonymous credentials from ECDSA, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2024/2010, 2024, available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/2010".
> Anonymous digital credentials allow a user to prove possession of an attribute that has been asserted by an identity issuer without revealing any extra information about themselves. For example, a user who has received a digital passport credential can prove their “age is ” without revealing any other attributes such as their name or date of birth.
Without exposing my citizenship, I was able to use by EU-nation issued ID to confirm only my year of birth.
The website supported this country's national ID login method, in the login challenge asked the server to provide my age, before I signed in to confirm (scanning qr code with my mobile app) I was informed what data was requested, then I consented to them confirming my data.
Not very sensitive things work without my physical ID present, sensitive have additional step with me providing my physical ID (to the NFC reader) and unlocking my key (stored on the ID) with a pin.
All in all it's really very sensible and fast.
Not necessarily the EU ID apps we're talking about but some of the existing implementations.
I was a Java programmer and administered a fairly big community website written in Drupal as a side gig, then applied to a news company that used Drupal, out of curiosity.
Turned out, their pageviews were simular but not costs, so they made me the CTO to optimize.
Since pretty much everyone was freelancer in this business, I had to turn full-time freelance.
Probably. But it’s actually nice to see that my comment gets downvoted.
A lot of our modern human rights today come from the anti-war movement. This is a highly controversial topic, and I read a lot of interesting opinions in this thread. It’s hard to argue for combat readiness for both genders if most people right now witness the abuse of military superpower like in Ukraine by the Russians or in Iran, causing a lot of loss of life and hardship.
I have been through all this before. Young students shouting murderers at the airport, peace signs everywhere. Most of my colleagues were angry, I was happy so many people showed up and made their voice heard without fear or repression. That’s the kind of freedom you fight for. It’s not always pretty if you’re on the receiving end but I considered that part of the job.
I am walking the Camino de Santiago now, and there were piligrims complaining about random issues with their phones, e.g. an elderly German lady was totally lost as her Google Maps was not working, so we got to an albergue, asked for wi-fi and downloaded CoMaps on her phone.
See also The Profession by Isaac Asimov [0] and his small story The Feeling of Power [1]. Both are social dramas about societies that went far down the path of ignorance.
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