GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Drivers license.

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Phil Windley

MAY 30, 2018

Online, various, so-called "identity providers" authenticate people using usernames and passwords and provide a fixed, usually limited set of attributes about the subject of the identity transaction. Mutual exchange of keys is a big step up from SSL-mediated transactions on the Web where only one-side is cryptographically authenticated.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Physical security of digital systems When most IT people think of computer security, they think of clever hackers who infiltrate their systems through the internet. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 14, 2010

Certificates provide two purposes: Authenticating the server to the client Providing encryption between the server and the client I will cover the authenticating the server to the client in this part 1 post, and will write a part 2 post that handles the second part of encryption. Those are the two easy to understand checks.

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