World Open-Sources ProveKit, a Post-Quantum Proving Toolkit That Runs on a Phone

On the first of September a dark web service calling itself Nexus began advertising bulk access to the identity documents of more than 170 million people across North America. The inventory it published reads like an audit of everything the verification industry has been quietly accumulating for a decade.

There were 153 million driving licence scans, upwards of 10 million other identification cards, more than 3 million travel and international documents and at least 579,000 medical cards. The files carried the infrared and ultraviolet layers that belong to one particular scanning pipeline, the timestamps lined up with the dates on which people had handed their documents across a counter, while the trail itself led to IDScan.net, a New Orleans verification firm that processes something in the region of 21 million checks a month for clients including Hertz, Target and FedEx. The FBI's New Orleans field office opened an investigation. Somebody had listed the United States defense secretary's driving licence at one hundred dollars.

The following morning World open-sourced ProveKit, a toolkit built on the argument that none of those files should ever have existed.

An argument about what a verification is supposed to return