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by miloignis 49 days ago
Matthew Green talks about this in his blog on the subject: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymou...

The two methods that seem feasible are making it hard to copy (putting it in the secure element in your phone, for example, which I don't love) or doing tokens that can only be used a limited number of times per day, like in : https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/454

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If it's a rolling cert with rate limits I think that solves the problem, particularly if access to the client cert allows the client to make a financial transaction, e.g. of $100. So you wouldn't share the client cert with randoms because they would just take your $100 and you'd be blocked.

Finally, a way to use blockchain for good.

This scheme does coincidentally introduce the ability to pay for things anonymously using porno tokens, part of a government mandated crypto currency.
So your bank says sorry, only 3 porns a day for you?
Where did you read that? Not in my post.
What rate limit would you use?
Maybe 256 authentications a day.
So only 256 porns a day for you. If you access a 257th porn site, your bank will know about it!