Identosphere 188: Technical Standards Underpinning ARF • SSI and Account Abstraction • New Draft of American Privacy Rights Act
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[Wayne Chang, SpruceID; Chris Eckl, Condatis, Sitekit; Eric Scouten, Adobe’s CAI, Dr. Carsten Stöcker, Spherity; Marie Wallace, Accenture] Panel: Decentralized Identity in Production 2024-06-07 Kuppinger Cole
Standards contain choices about dimensions of screw threads, nut sizes, etc., enabling a marketplace of interoperable parts from multiple suppliers. Without these choices, every part would be custom-manufactured. The same is true of the identity and security standards we use to build the Identity Engine. However, the identity and security standards at our disposal differ wildly in the degree to which they do and don’t make choices.
One thing that bothers me is that in the current EU Digital Wallet’s Architecture Reference Framework (ARF) and the various large-scale pilot projects, the technologies that seem to be most popular are consistently the ones that are “simpler” but “feel” less decentralized, i.e. using the examples from this article, OID4VC (not DIDComm), SD-JWT VC (not W3C VCDM), and “cnf” claim (not DIDs).
I repeat PKI is a sticking plaster for the security of the Internet. We need to find better ways to break the centralised approach to trust and move towards giving citizens the right to manage their own identity. KERI is, at least, one step forward in our thinking. Go and read the white paper, and make up your own mind. Our digital world is not black-or-white … it has many shades.
IDunion’s tech stack 1.0 allowed credentials and other messages to be exchanged, while OpenID’s protocols do not support messages. “You cannot transfer arbitrary data,” Philipp says. That feature is useful for a whole range of use cases, however.
Open authentication standards industry group FIDO Alliance has moved to strengthen biometric security amid concerns regarding bias and security threats with its new Face Verification Certification program that uses at least 10,000 tests for biometric performance evaluations, reports SiliconAngle.
A new report on Bhutan’s National Digital Identity (NDI) system, developed in collaboration with the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, offers an illuminating review of one of the world’s pioneering digital trust ecosystems.
House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce lawmakers have approved an overhauled draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would not only provide additional data collection, retention, and utilization restrictions for U.S. businesses but also impose updated reporting requirements, reports CyberScoop.
We will continue to refine and improve the deliverable that deals with the DC4EU ecosystem governance framework. The aim is to extend the scope to cover social security domain, and to take into account the ecosystem-related topics from the Education and Professional Qualifications Business Blueprint and Social Security Business Blueprint. Additional we consider it necessary to include the synergies with SDG/OOTS and updates to the EBSI governance-related topics.
With Procivis One, you can utilize its different components to develop any use case and model your business processes according to the upcoming European eIDAS 2.0 and Swiss E-ID requirements.
The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) will move to a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC), called Europeum, which will allow the EBSI network to go into full production. This is what EBSI has communicated in its X profile . An EDIC is a legal framework that helps member states establish and execute projects. The organization indicates that its vibrant “EBSI Early Adopter” ecosystem is ready to go into production.
A battery system is not only designed to create a battery passport but is also needed to track and manage the lifecycle of batteries. Its success depends on the interoperability and seamless interaction between platforms, protocols, and data formats, representing the ability of different systems, devices, or applications to communicate and exchange data effectively.
EBSI-CAN highlights the complex terrain of digital identity adoption and interoperability. By harnessing collective technical expertise and fostering cross-border collaboration, we may be able to edge closer towards a future where digital identities seamlessly transcend borders, unlocking new frontiers of innovation and opportunity.
The evidence is clear: open working leads to greater agility, faster innovation, and increased engagement. Members of your organisation are more capable of working toward goals in unison and with shared vision. Ideas from both inside and outside the organisation receive more equitable consideration. Members clearly see connections between their particular activities and an organisation’s overarching values, mission, and spirit.
The purpose of the CRI is to give artists around the world permanent, incorruptible proof of authorship. This is achieved by providing each artwork with a unique digital ID that does not require verification by a third-party to prove its authenticity.
This research explores the innovative integration of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) systems with Account Abstraction (AA) to enhance privacy, compliance, and user experience on the Ethereum blockchain. By leveraging verifiable credentials (VCs) and Ethereum attestations (EAs), the proposed framework empowers bundlers to pre-validate transactions, reducing on-chain reverts and penalties. The implementation of Merkle proofs and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) ensures efficient data processing and minimal disclosure, addressing both scalability and security concerns.
This paper gives an overview of the most influential articles for selective disclosure, a chronology of the evolution of the methods, and a list of strategies and approaches to the problem. We identify the categories of approaches and their advantages and disadvantages. In addition, we recognize research gaps and open challenges and provide potential future directions.
I’m a software engineer at SpruceID, working, among others, on open standards implementations such as the OpenID family and the ISO 18013-x specifications. I’m excited that some of our Rust libraries are already open-source and open for anyone to use, even if you still need to be somewhat of an expert to get started.
Bluesky is a promising decentralized Twitter-alternative. Founded two years ago, the company received $13M in funding from Twitter in 2021. Today, it employs 12 software engineers, with more than 5 million users a year on from its invite-only beta launch.
People need their own AIs. Personally and collectively. We won’t get them from Anthropic, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Meta, or Microsoft. Not even from Apple. All those companies will want to prov…
This eBook reveals the trends discovered by an independent study of 2,000 respondents across the U.S. and the U.K. to understand consumer perception towards remote identity verification, online security, and biometrics.
