> On 29 Jul 2022, at 01:44, Vasileios Kalos 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> What JWP allows that I find very useful is the following: the Verifier will 
> learn nothing more than what the user reveals, even if they (the Verifier) 
> cooperate with the Issuer (or anyone else).

Isn’t this somewhat overstating the likely privacy benefits? If the prover 
reveals _any_ PII to the verifier then the verifier can collaborate with the 
issuer to discover everything about that user. And we know from many studies on 
deanonymisation that it is very easy to accidentally reveal enough information 
to be identifiable. ZK proofs are nice and everything but they only ensure zero 
*additional* knowledge is gained by the verifier. In practice what is 
explicitly revealed is often enough. 

IMO if you want to have any hope of actually achieving the privacy you want 
then you really need to design the entire protocol, including specifying 
exactly what information is to be revealed. I think designing a generic 
“privacy preserving” message container is likely to give people unrealistic 
expectations. 

— Neil
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