Author: Aaron Day
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Microsoft’s Strategy for Decentralized Identity
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is repackaged by Microsoft calling it Decentralized Identity, to appease customer fears of meta data mining. Also, helps to convince users that the Tech Giant will help you store your SSI, without tracking you. Try to say that to yourself in the mirror, and keep a straight face…. By removing the word…
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3-D Secure Authentication Protocol
The basic concept of 3-D Secure Authentication Protocol is to tie the financial authorization process with online authentication and a driver of Self-sovereign Identity (SSI). This additional security authentication is based on a three-domain model (hence the 3-D in the name itself). Analysis of the first version of the 3D Secure Authentication Protocol by academia…
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Internet of Things and Self-Sovereign Identity
Internet of Things (IoT) is driving Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) as the function of the web has turned on the user and now follows you wherever you take your connected device. In a sense we now gave-up our freedom to exists privately in public places because of the desire to have convenience of wifi and roaming.…
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Self-Sovereign Identity and Big Brother
Throughout the world Governments are suffering from data overload, the very technology involved in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is the one sure thing that will save the Governments, aka Big Brother, from drowning in the debt of their own data silos. The cost associated with acquisition, storage, and management of data is increasing, and the cost…
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How to design a decentralised identity and currency system with social component
How to design a decentralised identity and currency system with social component This is an exceptional overview of blockchain and how Self-sovereign ID works, even though “decentralised” was spelled incorrectly, I left it in it’s original spelling to pay tribute to the great presentation, in the video below. In quotation is the information from Youtube…
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Self-sovereign Identity (SSI)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved a charter for a new Working Group tasked with standardizing the data model and syntax of decentralizedidentifiers (DIDs)—the ID keys of self-sovereign identity. The Verifiable Claims Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0. Credentials are a part of our daily lives;…
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Quantum-Resistant Cryptocurrency and CyberSecurity
Cryptocurrencies were originally conceived as an innovative new form of currency that would be digital, distributed and decentralized, offering privacy and anonymity to its users and to their transactions. There are currently over 1500 different cryptocurrencies in existence. Established cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, have gained considerable press, prevalence and participation in recent years.…
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Digital Wallet Market Research
A digital wallet also known as “e-Wallet” refers to an electronic device or online service that allows an individual to make electronic transactions. This can include purchasing items on-line with a computer or using a smartphone to purchase something at a store. An individual’s bank account can also be linked to the digital wallet. They…