New Zero-Knowledge Standards Proposed for EU Privacy Compliance
A working group has published draft interoperability profiles intended to reconcile selective disclosure with anti-money-laundering duties.
A cross-industry working group has released draft profiles describing how zero-knowledge attestations should be formatted so that a regulated institution can verify a compliance claim without receiving the underlying data.
The proposal is deliberately narrow. It specifies encoding, revocation, and verifier expectations, and takes no position on which proof system implementers should use.
Supervisors have so far responded with interest rather than commitment. Several have said publicly that they cannot accept a cryptographic claim until it is accompanied by an auditable governance process for issuing it.
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