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  • As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.

    Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.

    “25.678 standard volume foxes”, was starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel’s size.















  • Oh I see! Yeah the p12 cert solution would obviously be vulnerable to the “grandma attack”

    But it seems weird, because all of us in the EU should have to implement the eIDAS directive right, and our implementation of an eID here in Germany at least is an NFC interface on our national identity cards. So any phone with NFC can be the reader.

    If I wanna do my taxes, I touch my ID to my phone, enter my PIN and get logged in.

    Granted…that’s still a pretty fucked up “auth flow” for when I wanna watch porn 😅


  • For the first part of the question: I have to think/find a specific protocol to verify my intuition…

    For the second part of the question: no that is not possible. Cryptographic material is stored in a Smartcard/secure platform module which (in simple terms) means the key material can’t be extracted. So you always have to be physically in possession of the ID card/device with digital wallet in order to use it. Further you have to know a PIN or be able to present some biometric features to

    So yeah a smart kid can nick their grannies ID, find out her PIN or socially engineer her into providing biometric features. But it would only be valid for that one attestation.