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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

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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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

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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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Understanding SSL Certificates

Sean Daniel

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. Social Media. Sure, I trust the state government.

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

Summary: Generative identity allows us to live digital lives with dignity and effectiveness, contemplates and addresses the problems of social inclusion, and supports economic equality to everyone around the globe. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. This extensibility underpins its generativity.

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Multi-Source Identity

Phil Windley

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.