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by tzs 273 days ago
What happens if some party is able to get logs of the bank's age attestation signings and of hornpub.click's steps #2 and #6? It appears this would present some risk of matching up hornpub.click accounts with real IDs.

This is called "linkability" and ideally should be avoided so anonymous age verification can be safe.

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Banks and most sites requiring age verification are _littered_ with tracking software that does _literally_ this.

Further, if you put on an adblocker and I get access to the logs at ironbank and hornpub; I could just query them for your IP address.

Collusion to this degree is possible, but doesn't seem worth worrying about if the aforementioned attack vectors still exist. My $0.02.