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

GeekWire

That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results. Evernym director of marketing Alex Andrade-Walz said they are very familiar with Auth0, contrasting Evernym’s approach with Auth0’s focus on authentication and log-ins.

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CIOs Need To Prepare For The Arrival Of Face Scan Technology

The Accidental Successful CIO

The plan is to admit fans for entry by authenticating their faces. Fans of Los Angeles FC, a Major League Soccer club with a 22,000-seat stadium, will next year be able to use an app called Clear that is currently being used by some airline passengers to speed through security checks by presenting their fingerprints or showing their faces.

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Zero Trust with Zero Data

Phil Windley

driver's license) to prove your age when buying beer, we ran convenience stores like a web app. Similarly, airline personal move between numerous airports and need access to various facilities at airports. The attributes are self-contained in a tamper-evident package with built-in biometric authentication.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Main constituency: Businesses like airlines that can’t live without their technology. Chance of succeeding: It’s already here but only in cryptocurrency worlds.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Yet, because they're based on a metasystem and use a common protocol, I could go to the bank and use those in concert to prove that I'm employed (employee ID) and my date of birth (drivers license) at the same time in one operation.

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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. Those are the two easy to understand checks.

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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.