Comment by MatteoFrigo
6 months ago
An alternative would be some secure chip in a credit-card size plastic document, but nobody seems to like that idea. We (Google) don't make these choices.
6 months ago
An alternative would be some secure chip in a credit-card size plastic document, but nobody seems to like that idea. We (Google) don't make these choices.
Another approach could be for a component in the protocol that I do trust (eg an open source web browser) to serve as an intermediary, providing only the information required to each of the components that I don't trust (wallet, website). The wallet does not need to know who is requesting the proof, right?
I hear you. The main problem is how to prevent you from giving your document to somebody else, and things have converged on certified smartphone with security key plus biometrics.
Yeah, Passkeys are doing the same thing, expecting users to just blindly trust American Big Tech companies. It's distressing that no one working on these protocols considers the developers of the software that implements the protocol to be a party in the protocol. What are the wallet provider's interests in this exchange? How can the user be protected from the wallet provider? Seems no one asks these questions :(
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