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Authentic Digital Relationships

Phil Windley

Our online relationships with ecommerce companies, social media providers, banks, and others are cold and impersonal, but also relatively efficient. The protocols and code that enable the metasystem are open source and available for review and improvement. Supporting Authentic Relationships. Vehicle title from the state.

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

GeekWire

” The 30-person company has worked to create decentralized identifiers for open-source projects and efforts such as International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass. “This could be a log-in credential, but it could also be a vaccine record, diploma, hotel reservation, driver’s license, etc.

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The Sovrin SSI Stack

Phil Windley

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. DIDs resolve to DID Documents. A DID Document is associated with exactly one DID.

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Life-Like Identity: Why the Internet Needs an Identity Metasystem

Phil Windley

When you hand your driver’s license to the bartender to establish your legal age, we would be surprised if she could remember all the detailed information it contains, like your address, and do that for every patron she encountered. The bank requires proof that Alice is employed and makes at least $70,000 per year.

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

She might also use it at partner websites (like the benefits provider) to provide shared authentication without federation (and it's associated infrastructure). For example, suppose she is applying for a loan and her bank, Certiphi, who wants proof that she's employed and has a certain salary. Drivers license. Business licenses.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.