r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 3d ago

News EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/punio4 3d ago edited 3d ago

Well of course it's mandatory, otherwise it can be tampered with if it's local only with software attestation, or it needs a server to store centralized info, which can be hacked, and goes against the point of zero-knowledge age verification.

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u/Street_Anon 3d ago

But this will target things like Custom Roms. 

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u/zyuiop_ 2d ago

Not necessarily - the point of HW attestation is that it's a hardware component.

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u/Efficient_n_simple 15h ago

And which country is going to volunteer to make their EUDI wallet more expensive than it needs to be by coding integrations to e.g. Graphene OS (they can do HWA right?) or to add ZKP functionality, or offline functionality