Identosphere 155: RIP Vittorio • Using VCs to manage SSN# • Polyglots != interop • SD-JWTs in ACA-Py
You weekly guide to the latest news, events and other info related to the development and implementation of decentralized identity using Verifiable Credentials and related standards.
At IIW #36 Doc, Phil and I recorded this episode for Joe Andrieu’s Rubric Podcast.
we had introducing listeners to the people and technologies behind Decentralized Identity, including DID Methods, which determine how DIDs are created, read, updated, and deactivated.
We'll miss you, Vittorio. Rest in peace, my dear friend.
What we realised was that people were not using verifiable credentials as a replacement for a physical document, generally. Instead, what they were using it for, is – in the same way that a FinTech developer might use an open banking API
There are three types of solutions attempting to tackle this space: centralised private identity wallets, decentralised self-sovereign identity (SSI) projects, and a range of semi-decentralised government digital identity projects that apply some of the same principles as SSI.
We propose implementing JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to store the user encoded information locally and a private interplanetary file system (IPFS) to maintain encrypted and encoded vehicle data information for improved privacy. Additionally, the ERC-721 standard is used to tokenize the vehicle to create the digital twin. Finally, we add the VC to the digital twin
the 3Ps are a series of lenses we use with clients to ensure that we’re thinking through projects holistically. Below, we give an introduction on how to use it in practice.
Like Zero Trust, Zero Data represents a paradigm that organizations can embrace to enhance their overall security posture. But the benefits go far beyond better security.
What is capacity building for digital identity and credentials?
Developing talent and capacity across the public, private and non-profit sectors to foster trust is about providing these organizations with the knowledge and tools to properly approach, understand, and integrate digital identity and credentials into their operations.
Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director at National ID Ethiopia, Ankur Banerjee, Chief Technology Officer at cheqd and Steve McCown, Chief Architect at Anonyome Labs have been elected as DIF's new Steering Committee members. We're also delighted to announce that Catherine Nabbala, Global Business Coordinator at Finema and Brent Zundel, Principal Cryptography Engineer at Gen have been re-elected to the Steering Committee.
In this episode, Drummond Reed, Director, Trust Services at Gen Digital, gives a great overview of the Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP), through its 7 Key Pillars.
For listeners of the SSI Orbit Podcast, you may recall Drummond talking about the TSP on some previous episode (#41 & #45). These initial episodes still remain great primers on the topic. But since those last episodes, lots of work has been done
Through a comparative analysis of the technological and legal dimensions of a few selected national digital identity solutions currently being used in different countries, we highlight the diversity of technologies and architectures and the key role of the legal framework of a given digital identity solution. This position paper aims to help policy makers, software developers and concerned users understand the challenges of designing, implementing and using a national digital identity management system and establishing a legal framework for digital identity management, including personal data protection measures.
a practical demonstration of modern decentralised PKI built from standard X.509 standards and managed CA services. The private root PKI is hierarchical in that all certificates and issuing CAs chain together to a root CA (a hardware root of trust) but not dictatorial: every issuer within the MDAV family is autonomous over its own issuance policy (refer to the template master MDAV Certificate Policy). Firefighting bodies issue MDAV certificates to firefighters; paramedic bodies issue MDAV certificates to paramedics.
NIST’s Digital Guidelines are respected and referenced throughout the world so why does New York leave open the potential for ambiguous technology implementations which could be based on standards which are not parallel with efforts to support RON [Remote Online Notarization]?”
Ultimately, good regulation of the crypto industry can support sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. Policy makers have the opportunity to shape the crypto industry so that it enables a better future for us all.
while we’ve made crucial partnerships with companies like NeoSwap and Crypto Real Estate this year, connecting to Swarm is the link that can really make things happen and act as a force multiplier for all these other partnerships, and for others we’ll make in the future.
The Road to RWA 2023-09-19 Humanizing the Singularity, Mattereum
If one person wanted to send a message to another, you did a key exchange, you encrypted the email, often at a command line on a Unix box, and then you would send an email. That seems like prehistory, but that’s really only 25 years ago, and from that we’ve basically gone through probably three or four major stages of building out the crypto ecosystem that we have today.
explained that several W3C groups are actively working on data-related Web standards: #RDFStar, #VerifiableCredentials, Dataset Exchange, #JSONLD, #WoT [video\slides\transcript]
It’s common these days to specify data interchange formats as polyglots of JSON and JSON-LD. This specific kind of polyglot has particular costs that must be borne by users, authors, and implementors. [w3ctag/design-principles#239]
Selective Disclosure JSON Web Tokens (SD-JWTs) provide a key mechanism for selectively disclosing individual elements of a JSON object. Thanks to recent work by Indicio, this credential format has been added to Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py). Here’s what it means for you
we have now made available a Community Edition of our IDC Agent, available for download within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace now. IDC Agent – Microsoft Azure Marketplace
The Community Edition is a cloud-based ACA-Py compatible agent that deploys within your Microsoft Azure tenant.
This article expands on our recent posts about endorsement, offering a method for aligning Open Recognition with skills taxonomies. For example, “good listener” is reframed as “active listening”.
UGC identifies 'fake' institutions; with the advent of digital registries like those Dhiway could establish, verifiable credentials can enhance trust and modernize validation. [tweet]
Kashmir Hill’s forceful new book “Your face belongs to us” sets out the challenges posed by facial recognition technology for privacy, personal safety, law and order, even national security. She expertly stakes out the territory, for which there is no clear way to best respond.
