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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Establishing the Trustworthiness of Nodes without External Tokens (eg Passports)
by
d'aniel
on 29/01/2014, 06:39:26 UTC
Hrm. The problem is that even if the network decided to ask for passport blind-signing, that solution doesn't work for this use case because the attacker can issue passports.
I believe the idea is that the ZKPOP can reveal the country that issued the passport, so when setting up your Tor circuit, you'd select relays from distinct countries.  Then a sybil attack against Tor would require international coordination of governments.

Though don't governments generally have access to lots of foreign passport scans from border crossings, airport, etc.?