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by iron-s 801 days ago
What is real identity? Anything online can be faked. A state-issued id? How that protects against nation state?
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Nothing protects you if you're up against a state. That doesn't mean we should give up completely.

Do you have a passport? That's a real identity in most places. Soon, it may be possible to use that to link your identity to a set of public keys which you can then use to identify yourself.

There's a lot of work to be done to make this a reality, but work is surely going on right now and this is going to be possible one day.

Check this out, as a starting point: https://curity.io/resources/learn/verifiable-credentials/