Brief Intro to Privacy Pass The Privacy Pass protocol has been out there for a long time. It's simple to implement and deploy, and provides a straightforward way for services to provide safe private credits to their users. In short, Privacy Pass is a protocol between a client and a server, where the server, after authenticating the client, issues credits that the client can redeem to use a service…
Bluesky recently introduced a new form of verification . It’s a social version of the familiar notion of a blue check, in a way that is architecturally aligned with Bluesky and its underlying protocol ATProto . This allows notable accounts and accounts that are related to trusted organizations to be verified as authentic. In order to support that, the Bluesky app has a list of a few trusted…