[Cryptography] Pseudonymous private sperm donation – The problem with colliding rights (and collective punishment)

[Christian Huitema]

On 3/30/2025 1:20 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
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> There's no secret that can be kept by any cryptographic means when the 
> whole point of DNA is that it decrypts itself.


Of course not. But the secret is the link between a DNA code and 
specific human identity. That link is materialized in an entry in a 
database. The obvious attacks are to register someone else's DNA under 
your own identity, or to register your own DNA under a different 
identity. But of course there is the network effect, and that one is 
hard to crack. If your children or grandchildren or cousins register 
their own DNA, your charade will be cracked.

-- Christian Huitema