They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election
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  • doylio@lemmy.caEnglish
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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