Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. Introductory note: I recently read a paper from Sam Smith, Key Event Receipt Infrastructure , that provided inspiration for a way to think about and classify identity systems. Wikipedia defines legitimacy as.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 28, 2015

However, in June of 2013, a systems administrator at the National Security Agency (NSA) reminded us of the threat that already exists within an organization, behind the protection of its sophisticated, complex perimeter security. We recommend architectures that also enable analysis of streaming data.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One such asset is the certificate, which plays a crucial role in authenticating and securing online communications. The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) is a protocol used to check the revocation status of digital certificates in real-time over the internet. Featured image credit: wirestock/Freepik.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. By creating a general-purpose system for constructing context-specific identity systems, the metasystem represents a universal trust framework. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer.

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Phil Windley

MAY 18, 2021

And yet those systems are not ours, but rather belong to the companies that provide them. I call these systems "administrative" because they are built to administer our experience in a particular domain for the administrator's specific purposes. Not altogether unpleasant, but a far cry from authentic.

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