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The Generative Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

DIDComm is more than just a way to exchange credentials, it's a protocol layer capable of supporting specialized application protocols for specific workflows. The exchange of DIDs to form a connection with another party gives both parties a relationship that is self-certifying and mutually authenticated. technologies.

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The Self-Sovereign Internet

Phil Windley

I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. Alice) who, by virtue of knowing the authentication factors (e.g. Alice uses her private key to sign statements that authenticate herself and authorize use of the identifier.

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Three Impediments to the Internet of Things

The Investing Edge

This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. Also, existing Internet connections provide for transactions, not negotiation. Security needs to improve.

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Using X.509 Certs for DID Provenance

Phil Windley

For that, they need to take the issuer's decentralized identifier (DID) that they got from credential presentation and determine who it belongs to. At the most recent Internet Identity Workshop , Drummond Reed gave a session on how X.509 509 certificate for that endpoint, including in the application the DID they created in (1).

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The Self-Sovereign Internet of Things

Phil Windley

While decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials have much to offer the Internet of Things (IoT), the secure messaging subsystem promises an IoT that goes well beyond those initial scenarios. The follow-on post goes deeper into what a true Internet of Things founded on SSI can provide. Updating Firmware.

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The LLM Misinformation Problem I Was Not Expecting

SecureWorld News

The prolific use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models (LLMs) present new challenges we must address and new questions we must answer. In that particular case, however, they sought supporting materials in a manner similar to the use of an internet search engine. It is not an authentication protocol.