The two hackathons, participated by 20+ teams, 40+ organizations, and 200+ attendees The CA DMV is hosting this briefing to share with the broader mDL ecosystem
NIST to develop guidance on using digital identity documents, including mDLs and electronic passports, in online verification processes
Emphasizes interoperability between systems
Incorporates data minimization principles
Prevents issuer tracking
Explores alternatives to traditional identity verification methods, including attribute validation services provided by the Social Security Administration
Avoids mandating the use of Login.gov due to operational challenges and security concerns mentioned in an inspector general report.
NeoKe pilot: Successful test of document-free travel between Hong Kong-Tokyo using biometrics and SSID
"We were able to prove that these standards operate pretty well."
Condatis application: Using SSID for real-time hotel personalization and targeted offers
[youtube] A New Identity - SSI Comes of Age, Neoke, Condatis, Microsoft 2025-01-09 From shopping to booking to on the ground, SSI can empower travelers with control over every step of their experience, from relevant offers to frictionless travel throughout the journey.
Facial recognition deployment for cruise travelers at Palm Beach, Florida
Increasing capacity and modernizing immigration control areas with processing times of 10 to 15 seconds in San Jose's Juan Santamaría International Airport, Costa Rica, Thailand, Taiwan.
Matt McKinney, ArcBlock's Head of Growth, has been appointed Co-Chair of the DIF DID Method Working Group and an expert mentor in DIF Labs. This dual role highlights ArcBlock's commitment to both the standardization of DID methods and the practical application of decentralized identity technologies, bringing its years of experience building decentralized solutions to the forefront.
With extensive expertise in secure documents and KYC, it was a “natural transition” to enter the digital identity market, says Takumi , DNP, who launched a decentralized ID management platform in 2024.
ViWiSSO project will deliver an exhaustive assessment of standardization activities in diverse virtual world technologies. In parallel with preparing the standards landscape, we are seeking to compile and prioritize requirements of stakeholders for virtual world interoperability and standards.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the selection of first quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms Selected Algorithms:
CRYSTALS-Kyber: general encryption
CRYSTALS-Dilithium, Falcon, and SPHINCS+: digital signatures
Simply put, linting is an automated method to test PKI artifacts against documented standards such as the CA/Browser Forum (CABF) Baseline Requirements or relevant IETF RFCs. Those PKI artifacts can include precertificates (as defined in RFC 6962) or tbsCertificates (as defined in RFC 5280), actual certificates, or a CRL or OCSP response.
The present Communication describes a blockchain-based platform that leverages Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to address these challenges in supply chain management.
The framework serves healthcare organizations as a decision-support tool in choosing suitable use cases for decentralized ID and planning corresponding initiatives. For researchers, the socio-technical factors that determine use cases's amenability to decentralized ID enhance their understanding of this novel IS and the socio-technical change it brings about.
Global Cross-Border Payments: To increase from $190 trillion USD (2023) to $290 trillion USD (2030) due to digital integration Remittances: Reducing cost of cross border remittances (SDG10)
Average cost: 6.65% of amount sent, rising to 8.37% for Sub-Saharan Africa Travel Sector:: Rapidly transitioning to decentralized identity and "government-grade" digital identities Finance Industry:: Complex regulatory and technical challenges across multiple stakeholders
Established in 2022 by co-founders with over 250 years of collective experience in Identity Management, Verification, and Decentralized Identity
With the acquisition of Bindle Systems, the largest SSI network in the US, iDen2 has secured a strong market position. We have established relationships with 300 issuers and 400 verifiers, serving hundreds of thousands of users worldwide
Increasing use of cloud-based services that require robust authorization systems
Regulatory compliance requirements like HIPAA and GDPR that mandate access control and auditing
Rise of AI agents and the need to make good authorization decisions, know what decisions were made, and easily incorporate authorization infrastructure into apps and infrastructure
Issues such as poor password hygiene, phishing, and credential stuffing attacks have revealed the limitations of relying on passwords for identity verification. These challenges make passwords not only a security risk but also a burden on users who are required to manage an ever-growing list of complex credentials.
Whereas the Fediverse (ActivityPub) just has one kind of piece, viꝫ. servers, the ATmosphere has three different beasts: personal data servers (PDSs), relays, and (app) views. In short, PDSs store users' posts, relays aggregate them and views present them to others.
Transport layer? W3bstream's got you covered with ZKP-powered data validation 📡 • Embedded applications? Our SDKs support everything from Arduino to Raspberry Pi 🤖
To onboard a device (e.g., a 5G Cellular Antenna) that belongs to a certain DePIN project, a device owner needs to:
Retrieve the device's DID and DID document (e.g. via a usb tool paired with an embedded SDK installed on the device).
Upload the DID document to a storage provider and get the URI.
Register the device with its DID, DID document hash, and URI.
Using the owner's blockchain account, invoke the ioID on-chain registry to perform a Device Registration with the device DID, DID document hash, and URI.
The ioID device registry is updated with the new information and a "device NFT" is minted to the owner's blockchain address.
