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minus-squareeleijeep@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·8 days agoIt sounds simple when you’re not a mathematician or cryptographer, but the academic study of these systems reveals that it’s probably intractable: Privacy-Preserving Age Verification and Its Limitations - Steven M. Bellovin Cory Doctorow wrote an article shortly after this paper released that explains the situation quite well: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers
It sounds simple when you’re not a mathematician or cryptographer, but the academic study of these systems reveals that it’s probably intractable:
Privacy-Preserving Age Verification and Its Limitations - Steven M. Bellovin
Cory Doctorow wrote an article shortly after this paper released that explains the situation quite well: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers