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Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness

Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness

5/13/2021 · Thibault Meunier

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Introduced Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood as an experiment to replace CAPTCHAs. This system leverages WebAuthn and hardware security keys (like YubiKey) to provide a privacy-preserving proof of humanity. The technical explanation details the use of public-key cryptography and digital certificates, specifically focusing on the WebAuthn Attestation API and how manufacturers sign attestation public keys with digital certificates to verify device legitimacy without revealing user identity.

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