- Buenos Aires has launched a digital identification service referred to as QuarkID that makes use of zero-knowledge proofs.
- The service permits privateness by authenticating paperwork with out revealing private info.
- QuarkID shall be expanded nationwide, and pilot initiatives are underway in different Argentine areas.
Town of Buenos Aires has unveiled a groundbreaking digital identification service referred to as QuarkID, which goals to enhance residents' privateness by superior cryptographic know-how referred to as zero-knowledge proofs.
Built-in into the miBA software, a platform that has facilitated entry to municipal companies for the previous seven years, QuarkID seeks to present roughly 3.6 million porteños extra management over their private info.
Zero-knowledge proofs enable customers to confirm the authenticity of paperwork with out revealing pointless private info. For instance, residents can verify their age when buying alcohol with out offering their full date of delivery or handle.
This method is designed to empower residents by offering a sovereign identification system that prioritizes privateness and safety. “The choice from the start was to create a system of its personal sovereign identification in order that residents can have privateness and safety over the paperwork they purchase by possession,” mentioned Diego Fernandez, Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation of Buenos Aires.
Whereas zero-knowledge proofs can work independently of blockchain know-how, QuarkID makes use of ZKsync Period's Ethereum layer-2 community to function a “safety anchor”. This ensures that information will be confirmed in a particular kind at a particular time, lowering the chance of identification theft and fraud.
Customers can add greater than 60 kinds of paperwork, together with delivery certificates and vaccination information, with extra paperwork to be added within the coming months. Importantly, no third occasion, together with the municipality, has management over these paperwork, which considerably reduces the chance of information leakage.
The initiative guarantees to cut back prices for the federal government in comparison with conventional doc administration strategies, and the pilot program is ready to increase past Buenos Aires to areas reminiscent of Jujuy and Tucumán, in addition to small cities reminiscent of Luján de Cuyo.
Fernandez emphasised the potential for nationwide scaling, saying the know-how developed in Buenos Aires might be carried out all through Argentina and even in different Latin American international locations reminiscent of Uruguay.
