zero-knowledge proof of age?

There’s a discussion going on at XDG, the open source desktop list,
about age verification legislation, and they’re flailing about with
ideas like a file containing the users age :) so if anyone is
interested, there may be an opportunity there.

Seems to me the system should store not the user’s age and identity but
a way to prove the user’s age or age group satisfactorily.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2026-March/014764.html

liam

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Received on Friday, 13 March 2026 07:26:54 UTC