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Technical docs are here: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa/blob/main/IPA...

Might be worth opening an issue if you believe there's merit to the attack?

Those docs look out of date and appear to be designed for "app" ecosystems. The latest proposal from Mozilla is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QMHkAQ4JiuJkNcyGjAkOikPK...

And I'm now quite sure this system is insecure. Fundamentally, either:

1. There is some magical sybil protection: An attacker can only spend their own privacy budget without affecting the rest of the system.

2. The system can be saturated: An attacker can spend everyone's privacy budget.

3. The system is not private: An attacker can exceed the "safe" privacy budget by combining information from multiple sybils.

I assume it’s the MPC part that would need the Sybil protection?

Also, another assumption, but it’s that doc still builds upon the W3C proposal - would it not be worth raising as an issue in the repo? Seems to still be active.

It's all other parties, actually. I'm assuming Mozilla and friends are trusted and that the cryptography is perfect.

I've filed an issue at https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/ipa/issues/90 but I'm still not sure if that's the right repo.

I can try. But I'm pretty sure what they're trying to do is fundamentally impossible without some kind of sybil protection.

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