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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

In 2005, Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, published the Laws of Identity (PDF), a paper that laid out seven important principles for how digital identity should work. To see how credential exchange works, suppose Alice (the identity owner) is applying for a loan at her local bank (the credential verifier).

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