Google embraces a crypto niche technology: integrates ZK-Proof to its ID solution

By Hannah Pérez

Google presented a new ID tool that allows people to demonstrate their age without having to reveal it. All thanks to ZKP, a technology that Crypt has molded. The Bumble’s appointment app will be the first to use the solution.

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• Google is integrating ZKP technology into a new ID tool for your Google Wallet.
• ZKP or zero knowledge test It facilitates the verification of information while privacy is preserved.
• Google Wallet users can now demonstrate their easiest age and identity.
• The Bumble’s appointment app among the first to adopt Google ID solution.

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The advances of technology of the crypto industry and Blockchain They have become remarkable enough for now the technology giant Google hug them for their own products.

Google He has just announced new capacities to facilitate people to demonstrate their age and identity in a safe way. All thanks to Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP): an old technology but took concrete form in cryptocurrency laboratories.

ZKP, also called in Spanish zero knowledge test, is a cryptographic concept that refers to a process where a part can demonstrate to another that has certain information, without revealing any additional detail about that information.

Introduced in the 1980s by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff, this concept was largely of academic interest for cryptographers and computer scientists before finding practical applications in the cryptocurrency industry.

Projects like ZCashfounded in 2016, contributed serious innovations to technology, which over the years has become one of the largest use cases within the sphere Blockchaintogether with real world payments.

In more recent times, technology has expanded towards new variants such as ZK-Rollups, than networks Blockchain Capa 2 take advantage to group batch transactions outside the chain, reducing costs and congestion. Despite these advances, ZKP has not yet found popularity outside niche circles, possibly due to its implementation complexity.

Google Wallet takes advantage of ZKP for an identity solution

The ZKP concept can be understood as a trusted game. Imagine that you want to prove that you have the key to a safe without showing it: with ZKP, you can convince someone that you have it only showing that you can open it, without seeing the key.

Google in particular it is integrating the so -called zero knowledge tests in its wallet application, Google Walletas an identity solution, facilitating that users can demonstrate their age without having to reveal it.

The company shared Friday in a statement that the new ID tool is being first enabled for users in the United Kingdom, although it hopes to introduce it soon in the United States and other countries.

“UK residents can soon create digital identification passes with their United Kingdom passports and store them safely and conveniently in Google Wallet“, The company wrote at the blog post.

The measure allows users to demonstrate that they are old enough to access certain applications or websites without revealing their birth dates or personal identification data. The appointment application Bumble It will be one of the first partners to use this ZK -based identification systemsaid Google.

“Since many sites and services require age verification, we wanted to develop a system that not only verifies age, but does it in a way that protects its privacy“, Details the statement.”That is why we are integrating Zero Knowledge Proof technology (ZKP) in Google Wallet, ensuring even more than there is no way to link age to its identity“

Google He added that his ID solution will have consumption applications on and offline, even as a passport of the United States for national flights. “New use cases are on their way“

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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