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Spruce Systems

SpruceID is an ecosystem of open source libraries to enable user-controlled identity anywhere. Kepler is a decentralized storage system that uses smart contracts to define where your data live and who has access. Enable reusable identity verifications across social media, DNS and more. Enable use...

Updated: 2023-03-31 less than 1 minute read

Credible
DID
DID:TEZOS
DIDKit
ENS
Enterprise
Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation
FIDO2
Graph Hack 2022
Kepler
OpenID Connect
Rebase
Tezos
TreeLDR
USA
Verifiable Credentials

Spherity

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with ...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

AI
Cloud Identity Wallet
DID
Enterprise
EU
European Data Infrastructure
Healthcare
IDUnion
IOT
ISO 27001
Kuppinger Cole
Legisym
Ontology
Secure Digital Identity Association
Sovrin Steward
Supply Chain
Verifiable Credentials

MyDex

As a Community Interest Company we are legally committed to pursuing our mission of empowering individuals with their data. We are currently helping individuals and service providers use Personal data to better manage chronic health conditions, access debt advice, improve independent assisted liv...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

Data A New Direction
DigitalScot
Enterprise
ISO 27001
National Data Strategy
Personal Data
Personal Data Stores
Public Sector
Verifiable Credentials

Global ID

Our mission is to bring decentralized digital identity to all people — a self-sovereign identity they can use to communicate, transact, and create value within any context. At GlobaliD, we believe that your identity is the key to unlocking your social and economic potential. This applies to the p...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

Compliance
COVID
Indicio
PRIVATE
Verifiable Credentials
Wallets

Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is tasked to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The foundation is backed and overseen by the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee, representing publ...

Updated: 2021-04-17 4 minute read

CFCA
DIZME
Datacard
DigiCert
Entrust
Evernym
GLEIF
ICAI India
InfoCert
Serto
SwissSign
Ubisecure
Verifiable Credentials

Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

BTCR
DID
DID:PEER
DIF
ERC725
Ethereum
ION
Identifiers and Discovery WG
JSON-LD
KERI
Linked Data
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

(DID) Authentication Working Group - DIF

The purpose of this working group is to design, recommend and implement authentication and authorization protocols that rely upon open standards and cryptographic protocols using DIDs and DID Documents. Recommendations and development of specifications, protocols, and formats for data structures ...

Updated: 2020-11-26 2 minute read

Aries
DID
DIDAuth
DIDAuth WG
DIDComm
DIF
SOIP
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Verifiable Credentials - Adoption

Substrate Verifiable Credentials Workshop - Learn to build blockchains with Parity Substrate Verifiable Credential API CEF Digital Connecting Europe The Verifiable Credential API provides a Core Service of the EBSI platform providing the capability of creating W3C credentials read...

Updated: 4 minute read

Adoption
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
IBM
MATTR
RWoT
VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Claims and Credentials Working Group - DIF

Join this group to contribute to the standards and technology that create, exchange, and verify claims and credentials in a decentralized identity ecosystem. For example, a cryptographically verifiable credential that proves an individual has a college degree or is of a certain age. Our members f...

Updated: 2020-11-25 2 minute read

Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
DIF
JSON-LD
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

W3C Verifiable Claims Working Group

The Working Group will maintain the Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification, which provides a mechanism to express a verifiable credential on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

Updated: 2020-11-23 less than 1 minute read

VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

BCGov - Government of British Columbia Canada

“Digital technologies are transforming the way British Columbians live, work and play. To meet their changing expectations, government’s transformation is also underway. It’s about using modern tools and technologies to deliver the services people want and maximizing the power of data to improve ...

Updated: 12 minute read

Aries
Canada
DID
IIW
Indy
Trinsic
Trust Framework
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Ontology

Ontology is a high performance, open source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data. Ontology’s unique infrastructure supports robust cross-chain collaboration and Layer 2 scalability, offering businesses the flexibility to design a blockchain that suits their needs. With a suite of ...

Updated: 2020-11-11 5 minute read

Blockchain
Consensys
Ethereum
Microsoft
NEO
Ontology
Polkadot
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

Veres One

Our vision is to enable all people and organizations in the world to create and own their online identifiers, control their identity data and with whom they share that data.

Updated: 2020-11-10 1 minute read

Blockchain
DID
Digital Bazaar
Veres One
Veres One CG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

BTCR
Credentials Community Group
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN

Trinsic

We make it easy to implement Self-Sovereign Identity based on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), a new digital identity standard. Our software is based on the open-source Hyperledger Aries project, to which we are a primary contributor. Together with proper governa...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Aries
Covid Credentials
DID
DIF
Good Health Pass
Hyperledger
Hyperledger Foundation
Indy
Sovrin Foundation
Streetcred
TOIP
Trinsic
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Hyland Credentials - Issue verifiable records using the blockchain.

Hyland Credentials started as Learning Machine, a startup that architected the Blockcerts open standard with the MIT Media Lab and co-chaired of the W3C Credentials Community Group. Since that inception, we’ve become the global leader in blockchain-based digital credentials. As the only records p...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Blockcerts
DIF
Hyland
Hyland Credentials
Learning Machine
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

AI
DID
DIF
Digital Twins
eIDAS
IOT
ISO 27001
Ontology
Sovrin Foundation
Swisscom
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

AI
DID
DIF
Digital Twins
eIDAS
IOT
ISO 27001
Ontology
Sovrin Foundation
Swisscom
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

3box

Ethereum Profiles makes it simple for users to create a reusable profile for their Ethereum address which can easily be shared with dapps to simplify the onboarding experience and create a more frictionless, social web3 dapp ecosystem. Ethereum Profiles allows Ethereum users to collect and contro...

Updated: 2020-11-05 4 minute read

3box
DIF
Ethereum
IPID
Verifiable Credentials
Web3
uPort

Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BBS Signatures
DHS
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
MATTR
Mattr
Schema.org
Sovrin Foundation
Verifiable Credentials

Evernym

The world’s leading platform for verifiable credentials. Build and deploy self-sovereign identity solutions, with the technology and go-to-market resources powering the largest implementations of digital credentials in production.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

ATB
Avast
DHS
DID
DIF
ESSIFlab
Evernym
Founding Sovrin Steward
Indy
IOTA
Respect Network
Sovrin
Sovrin Foundation
Sovrin Steward
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials

Department Homeland Security (DHS)

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen n...

Updated: 2020-11-02 17 minute read

Blockcerts
Celerity
DHS
DKMS
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Dignario
Evernym
Factom
Indicio
Learning Machine
MATTR
Mavnet
Mesur
Narf
Respect Network
SICPA
SecureKey
Solarity
Spherity
Stranger Labs
Transmute
Trinsic
USA
Verifiable Credentials
Verified.ME
W3C

Governments of Canada and the Pan Canadian Trust Framework

“The Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada (TBS) and Shared Services Canada (SSC) are seeking a standardized method to issue and rapidly verify portable digital credentials across many different contexts, thereby reducing human judgement error, increasing efficiency and ensuring digital credential...

Updated: 4 minute read

Canada
DIACC
PCTF
Trust Framework
Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, “Verifiab...

Updated: 2022-12-12 20 minute read

Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
FIDO
JSON-LD
OAuth
VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2021-04-14 6 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

JSON-LD

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents o...

Updated: 2021-04-18 5 minute read

Credentials Community Group
Digital Bazaar
JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
Schema.org
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

SSI-Meetup on Open Standards and Implementations

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
DID
DKMS
Ethereum
ION
Media
Microsoft
SSI-Meetup
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

SSI-Meetup - Use Cases

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

Financial Services
Healthcare
IOT
Media
SSI-Meetup
Truu
Verifiable Credentials

MyData

We are entrepreneurs, activists, academics, listed corporations, public agencies, and developers. For years, we’ve been using different words for what we do – MyData, Self Data, VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), Internet of Me, PIMS (Personal Information Management Services) etc, while sharin...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

AI
DKMS
GDPR
JLinc
Meeco
MyData
OAuth
Verifiable Credentials
eIDAS

uPort

In your application, you must first configure your uPort object with an identifier and a private key (or signer function). There are several ways to instantiate a credentials object. The most common approach is to save a DID and private key on a server for your application and create a credential...

Updated: 2020-11-30 8 minute read

Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DID
DIDComm
DIF
Ethereum
GDPR
GLEIF
Onfido
PWC
Switzerland
Verifiable Credentials
Web3
Zug
uPort
uPortlandia

Identity Articles, Research and Literature

A selection of DID related literature and top level resources for discovery of more.

Updated: 2019-07-11 6 minute read

Accenture
DKMS
DPKI
Danube Tech
ID2020
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Verifiable Credentials
WEF
XDI
Zug
uPort

SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Credentials Community Group
DIDAuth
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
IBM
ID2020
Indy
JSON-LD
Jolocom
Learning Machine
Linked Data
OASIS
OTA
Ockam
RDF
RWoT
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
XDI
uPort

The Sovrin Foundation

The Sovrin Foundation is a private-sector, international non-profit that was established to govern the world’s first self-sovereign identity (SSI) network.

Updated: 2020-11-19 32 minute read

ARTiFACTS
ATB
Aalto
Absa
Amihan
Attinad
BIG
BakerHostetler
CULedger
Certisign
Cisco
Crypto Valley Association
Danube Tech
Datum
Desert Financial
DigiCert
Digital Bazaar
Estatus
Evernym
Finicity
First Education CU
GDPR
IBM
Indy
InfoCert
KYC-Chain
OAS Staff FCU
Perkins Cole
ProSapien
Qiy Foundation
Royal CU
SICPA
SITA
Sovrin Foundation
Spark NZ
Swisscom
T-Labs
TNO
Trust Framework
Truu
TwinPeek
Tykn
Veridium
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
Vimsa
W3C
iRespond
lab10 collective

IBM Identity

IBM joined DIF because we believe it will take open community and standards to achieve the vision of self-sovereign identity. For example, members of DIF are focused on the establishment of an open web platform standard within the W3C standards organization called Decentralized Identifier (DID). ...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

DID
DIF
Good Health Pass
Hyperledger
IBM
Indy
Mooti
SecureKey
Sovrin Foundation
Sovrin Steward
Verifiable Credentials

Verfiable Organizations Network (VON)

an initiative by the government of British Columbia to create a trusted network of organizational data. It allows organizations to claim credentials that are part of their own digital identity, using a component called TheOrgBook that lists entities with their associated public verifiable claims.

Updated: 2020-01-11 3 minute read

Canada
Hyperledger
IIW
Indy
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network

Ethereum Identity Specs and Apps

Ethereum-based Decentralized Identity Specs, Literature, (d)Apps, and GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2020-11-05 8 minute read

3box
Consensys
ERC725
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Ethereum
Jolocom
Microsoft
Nuggets
OASIS
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials
Web3
uPort

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

European Government Identity Initiatives

Verifiable Credential API The Verifiable Credential API provides a Core Service of the EBSI platform providing the capability of creating W3C credentials ready for signing and validating W3C Verifiable Credentials. Government services and digital identity (EUBlockchainForu...

Updated: 2019-01-11 4 minute read

EBSI
ESSIFlab
Ethereum
Europe
Switzerland
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
Zug
eIDAS
uPort

Verifiable Organizations Network - A Production Government Deployment of Hyperledger Indy

VON’s founding members are governments who are, by law, trusted issuers of data about organizations. The Province of British Columbia, Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada have come together to create the initial services needed to establish VON. VON’s founders have delivered new Indy...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

Canada
Hyperledger Forum
Indy
Transcript
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Hyperledger Indy Resources

Hyperledger Indy provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for providing digital identities rooted on blockchains or other distributed ledgers so that they are interoperable across administrative domains, applications, and any other silo. Indy is interoperable with other blockchains or c...

Updated: 2019-07-10 2 minute read

Evernym
IBM
Indy
Sovrin Foundation
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network

DID

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Spruce Systems

SpruceID is an ecosystem of open source libraries to enable user-controlled identity anywhere. Kepler is a decentralized storage system that uses smart contracts to define where your data live and who has access. Enable reusable identity verifications across social media, DNS and more. Enable use...

Updated: 2023-03-31 less than 1 minute read

Credible
DID
DID:TEZOS
DIDKit
ENS
Enterprise
Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation
FIDO2
Graph Hack 2022
Kepler
OpenID Connect
Rebase
Tezos
TreeLDR
USA
Verifiable Credentials

Spherity

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with ...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

AI
Cloud Identity Wallet
DID
Enterprise
EU
European Data Infrastructure
Healthcare
IDUnion
IOT
ISO 27001
Kuppinger Cole
Legisym
Ontology
Secure Digital Identity Association
Sovrin Steward
Supply Chain
Verifiable Credentials

Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

BTCR
DID
DID:PEER
DIF
ERC725
Ethereum
ION
Identifiers and Discovery WG
JSON-LD
KERI
Linked Data
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

(DID) Authentication Working Group - DIF

The purpose of this working group is to design, recommend and implement authentication and authorization protocols that rely upon open standards and cryptographic protocols using DIDs and DID Documents. Recommendations and development of specifications, protocols, and formats for data structures ...

Updated: 2020-11-26 2 minute read

Aries
DID
DIDAuth
DIDAuth WG
DIDComm
DIF
SOIP
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

DID Communications WG - DIF

Produce one or more high-quality specs that embody a method (“DIDComm”) for secure, private and (where applicable) authenticated message-based communication, where trust is rooted in DIDs and depends on the messages themselves, not on the external properties of the transport(s) used. The method m...

Updated: 2020-11-26 3 minute read

Aries
DID
DIDComm
DIDComm WG
DIF
W3C

KERI - Key Event Receipt Infrastructure

An identity system based secure overlay for the Internet is presented. This includes a primary root-of-trust in self-certifying identifiers. It presents a formalism for Autonomic Identifiers (AIDs) and Autonomic Namespaces (ANs). They are part of an Autonomic Identity System (AIS). This system us...

Updated: 2020-11-22 7 minute read

DID
DIF
DKMI
KERI
RWoT

Zug ID

Zug leveraged uPort, a decentralized identity platform to create the world’s first live implementation of a self-sovereign government-issued identity project on the Ethereum blockchain, along with the city of Zug, the Institute for Financial Services Zug (IFZ) of the Lucerne University, along wit...

Updated: 2020-11-18 7 minute read

Aries
Consensys
Crypto Valley Association
DID
Ethereum
Europe
ProCivis
Switzerland
Zug
uPort

BCGov - Government of British Columbia Canada

“Digital technologies are transforming the way British Columbians live, work and play. To meet their changing expectations, government’s transformation is also underway. It’s about using modern tools and technologies to deliver the services people want and maximizing the power of data to improve ...

Updated: 12 minute read

Aries
Canada
DID
IIW
Indy
Trinsic
Trust Framework
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Veres One

Our vision is to enable all people and organizations in the world to create and own their online identifiers, control their identity data and with whom they share that data.

Updated: 2020-11-10 1 minute read

Blockchain
DID
Digital Bazaar
Veres One
Veres One CG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Blockstack

Blockstack builds an alternate DNS and alternate public-key infrastructure. It’s the first implementation of a decentralized DNS system on top of the Bitcoin blockchain It combines DNS functionality with public key infrastructure and is primarily meant to be used by new blockchain applications.

Updated: 2020-11-10 2 minute read

Bitcoin
Blockchain
Blockstack
DID

World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

BTCR
Credentials Community Group
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN

Trinsic

We make it easy to implement Self-Sovereign Identity based on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), a new digital identity standard. Our software is based on the open-source Hyperledger Aries project, to which we are a primary contributor. Together with proper governa...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Aries
Covid Credentials
DID
DIF
Good Health Pass
Hyperledger
Hyperledger Foundation
Indy
Sovrin Foundation
Streetcred
TOIP
Trinsic
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C

Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

AI
DID
DIF
Digital Twins
eIDAS
IOT
ISO 27001
Ontology
Sovrin Foundation
Swisscom
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

Jolocom

The protocol logic encodes a granular, claim-based model of identity that is highly generalized and unrestrictive in scope in order to accommodate a multiplicity of potential use cases and broad range of subjects of identity (users), including individual persons as well non-person entities like o...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BigchainDB
DID
DIF
EBSI
ESSIFlab
Ethereum
INATBA
IOTA
Jolocom
Solid
T-Labs
W3C

MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BBS Signatures
DHS
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
MATTR
Mattr
Schema.org
Sovrin Foundation
Verifiable Credentials

Evernym

The world’s leading platform for verifiable credentials. Build and deploy self-sovereign identity solutions, with the technology and go-to-market resources powering the largest implementations of digital credentials in production.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

ATB
Avast
DHS
DID
DIF
ESSIFlab
Evernym
Founding Sovrin Steward
Indy
IOTA
Respect Network
Sovrin
Sovrin Foundation
Sovrin Steward
Trust over IP
Verifiable Credentials

(DID) the Decentralized Identifier

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to ty...

Updated: 2022-12-11 69 minute read

51nodes
ABT Network
Aergo
Alastria
ArcBlock
Ardor
BCGov
BIF
BOTLabs
BSC
Baidu
Besu
BiiLabs
Binance
Bitcoin
BlockchainCommons
Blockcore
Blocko
Blockstack
Celo
Ceramic Network
Chainyard
Cloudchain
Commercio
Consensys
Consent
Corda
Cosmos
Credentials Community Group
DID
DID:AERGO
DID:ALA
DID:AVVCYBER
DID:BBA
DID:BID
DID:BNB
DID:BRYK
DID:BTCR
DID:CCP
DID:CELO
DID:COM
DID:CORDA
DID:DID
DID:DOCK
DID:DOGE
DID:ECHO
DID:ELASTOS
DID:ELEM
DID:EMTRUST
DID:EOS
DID:ERC725
DID:ETHO
DID:ETHR
DID:EVAN
DID:FACTOM
DID:GATC
DID:GIT
DID:GITHUB
DID:GRG
DID:HEDERA
DID:HOLO
DID:ICON
DID:INDY
DID:IO
DID:ION
DID:IPID
DID:IS
DID:IWT
DID:JLINC
DID:JNCTN
DID:JOLO
DID:JWK
DID:KEY
DID:KILT
DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
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DID:NEAR
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DID:OP
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DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
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DID:TTM
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DID:TZ
DID:UNDID
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DID:WLK
DID:WORK
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Dock
EOS
ERC725
Echo
Elastos
Element
Email
Ethereum
Evan Network
Evernym
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Factom
GRGBanking
Gatica
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GrgChain
Halialabs
Hashgraph
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Hydra
Hyland Credentials
Hyperledger
IBM
ICONLOOP
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ION
IOP
IOTA
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Indy
InfoWallet
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Jolocom
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Quorum
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RWoT
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SecureKey
SelfKey
SelfKey Identity
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Sovrin Foundation
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TIFAC-CORE
TMChain
TOR
TRON
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Token.TM
TranSendX
Transmute
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VP
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Workday
YLZ Inc
Zilliqa
bryk
cryptonics
lifeID
uPort

Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2021-04-14 6 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

SSI-Meetup on Open Standards and Implementations

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
DID
DKMS
Ethereum
ION
Media
Microsoft
SSI-Meetup
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

uPort

In your application, you must first configure your uPort object with an identifier and a private key (or signer function). There are several ways to instantiate a credentials object. The most common approach is to save a DID and private key on a server for your application and create a credential...

Updated: 2020-11-30 8 minute read

Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DID
DIDComm
DIF
Ethereum
GDPR
GLEIF
Onfido
PWC
Switzerland
Verifiable Credentials
Web3
Zug
uPort
uPortlandia

Microsoft Identity

Microsoft believes everyone has the right to own their digital identity, one that securely and privately stores all personal data. This ID must seamlessly integrate into daily life and give complete control over data access and use.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Bitcoin
Blockstack
Consensys
DID
DIF
Ethereum
FIDO
ID2020
ID2020 Founder
ION
Mastercard
Microsoft
Secure Data Storage
Transmute
uPort
VCI Founder
WebAuthN

IBM Identity

IBM joined DIF because we believe it will take open community and standards to achieve the vision of self-sovereign identity. For example, members of DIF are focused on the establishment of an open web platform standard within the W3C standards organization called Decentralized Identifier (DID). ...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

DID
DIF
Good Health Pass
Hyperledger
IBM
Indy
Mooti
SecureKey
Sovrin Foundation
Sovrin Steward
Verifiable Credentials

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

JSON-LD

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Object Capability Model

Computer scientist E. Dean Tribble stated that in smart contracts, identity-based access control did not support well dynamically changing permissions, compared to the object-capability model. He analogized the ocap model with giving a valet the key to one’s car, without handing over the right to...

Updated: 2021-04-19 6 minute read

Cosmos
JSON-LD
oCap
zCap

Schema.org Community Group

The Schema.org Community Group provides a forum for discussing all changes, additions and extensions to schema.org. In addition to providing a public setting for the day to day operation of the project, it serves as the mechanism for reviewing extensions and as a liaison point for all parties dev...

Updated: 2020-11-27 2 minute read

JSON-LD
Microsoft
RDF
Schema.org
W3C

Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

BTCR
DID
DID:PEER
DIF
ERC725
Ethereum
ION
Identifiers and Discovery WG
JSON-LD
KERI
Linked Data
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

Claims and Credentials Working Group - DIF

Join this group to contribute to the standards and technology that create, exchange, and verify claims and credentials in a decentralized identity ecosystem. For example, a cryptographically verifiable credential that proves an individual has a college degree or is of a certain age. Our members f...

Updated: 2020-11-25 2 minute read

Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
DIF
JSON-LD
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

BTCR
Credentials Community Group
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BBS Signatures
DHS
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
MATTR
Mattr
Schema.org
Sovrin Foundation
Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, “Verifiab...

Updated: 2022-12-12 20 minute read

Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
FIDO
JSON-LD
OAuth
VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Linked Data and the Semantic Web

In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the world a preview of the revolutionary new changes they saw coming to the web. Since its introdu...

Updated: 2020-01-09 8 minute read

JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
RSA
Solid
Veres One
W3C

Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2021-04-14 6 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

JSON-LD

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents o...

Updated: 2021-04-18 5 minute read

Credentials Community Group
Digital Bazaar
JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
Schema.org
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Credentials Community Group
DIDAuth
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
IBM
ID2020
Indy
JSON-LD
Jolocom
Learning Machine
Linked Data
OASIS
OTA
Ockam
RDF
RWoT
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
XDI
uPort

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

Blockcerts

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Verifiable Credentials - Adoption

Substrate Verifiable Credentials Workshop - Learn to build blockchains with Parity Substrate Verifiable Credential API CEF Digital Connecting Europe The Verifiable Credential API provides a Core Service of the EBSI platform providing the capability of creating W3C credentials read...

Updated: 4 minute read

Adoption
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
IBM
MATTR
RWoT
VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Hyland Credentials - Issue verifiable records using the blockchain.

Hyland Credentials started as Learning Machine, a startup that architected the Blockcerts open standard with the MIT Media Lab and co-chaired of the W3C Credentials Community Group. Since that inception, we’ve become the global leader in blockchain-based digital credentials. As the only records p...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Blockcerts
DIF
Hyland
Hyland Credentials
Learning Machine
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

Department Homeland Security (DHS)

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen n...

Updated: 2020-11-02 17 minute read

Blockcerts
Celerity
DHS
DKMS
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Dignario
Evernym
Factom
Indicio
Learning Machine
MATTR
Mavnet
Mesur
Narf
Respect Network
SICPA
SecureKey
Solarity
Spherity
Stranger Labs
Transmute
Trinsic
USA
Verifiable Credentials
Verified.ME
W3C

Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2021-04-14 6 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Credentials Community Group
DIDAuth
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
IBM
ID2020
Indy
JSON-LD
Jolocom
Learning Machine
Linked Data
OASIS
OTA
Ockam
RDF
RWoT
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
XDI
uPort

Hyperledger Global Forum-2018

“SAN FRANCISCO AND BASEL, SWITZERLAND – (December 12, 2018) – Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, today kicked off the first day of its Hyperledger Global Forum. The event has drawn more than 650 attendees from as far as Aust...

Updated: 2019-03-06 1 minute read

ATB
Blockcerts
CULedger
DigiCert
Evernym
Fabric
GDPR
Hyperledger Forum
Indy
MyCuID
R3
Sovrin Foundation
Switzerland
Verifiable Organizations Network

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

PGP

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History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

Cryptonomica

We make verification of key owner’s identity and store data about this verification: who, when, using which document made verification. And unlike in ‘Web of trust’ there is an established procedure for key verification, i.e. known rules according to witch identity of the key owner have to be pro...

Updated: 2019-07-11 2 minute read

Blockchain
Ethereum
PGP

Decentralized Identity. Pre-history + resources for further exploration.

These pages are loosely categorized by year and era. The date ranges, are somewhat arbitrary and not perfectly adhered to, and the headings are not perfect descriptors of those date ranges. Rather those are some major themes occuring within that time period.

Updated: 2020-01-05 6 minute read

DPKI
History
IDCommons
IETF
IIW
PGP

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

XDI

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The Dataweb: An Introduction to XDI

The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, exchanged, linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable dataweb using XML documents just as content from any content source can linked into the human-readable Web using HTML documents today. Because the controls needed t...

Updated: 2020-12-09 41 minute read

Dataweb
History
Literature
XDI
XRI

XDI Technical Committee

The purpose of the OASIS XDI TC is to define a generalized, extensible, location-, application-, and transport-independent service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers), a URI-compatibl...

Updated: 2020-12-01 8 minute read

Dataweb
OASIS
RDF
XDI
XRI

XRI Technical Committee

The purpose of this TC is to define a syntax for abstract structured identifiers – identifiers that can be used within other URI schemes (such as http: and https: URIs) to share semantics across any number of domains and applications. The TC is also defining a simple XML descriptor format and HTT...

Updated: 2020-12-01 6 minute read

Dataweb
OASIS
XDI
XRI

Planetwork

We are dedicated to the creation and maintenance of a digital communications platform, operated as a public interest utility, that will strengthen civil society by enabling people to connect, communicate, make transactions, and self-organize in a manner that is consistent with the highest princip...

Updated: 2020-11-25 25 minute read

Augmented Social Network
Bloom
IDCommons
JLinc
OASIS
Planetwork
XDI

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

History (2010-2014) Personal Data: Emergence of a New Assets Class

Your IDENTITY is at the root of your relationship with any service providing company, including the telecom companies. Honestly sir, the proper structure of the global network that emanates out of US agencies, laboratories, universities, offices, homes and increasingly pockets, is one based on un...

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

Bitcoin
California
Credentials Community Group
DIACC
Danube Tech
FIDO
IBM
IDCommons
IndieAuth
Jolocom
Microsoft
NSTIC
Namecoin
OAuth
PCTF
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
Swisscom
Trust Framework
W3C
WebAuthN
Windhover Principles
XDI

History (2000-2009) Augmented Social Network - Laws of Identity - User Centric

The first International Planetwork Conference - Global Ecology and Information Technology, San Francisco, May 2000. The community that developed around the Planetwork conferences, including Linktank, formed the social and intellectual foundation for what became known as Self Sovereign Identity.

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

Augmented Social Network
Digital Bazaar
FIDO
History
IDCommons
IIW
Laws of Identity
Microsoft
Neustar
OASIS
OAuth
OpenID
Planetwork
Verisign
XDI
YADIS

XDI (XRI Data Interchange)

XDI is a technology for modeling, storing, and manipulating data. It fits into a similar category of technologies as JSON, XML and RDF, but also has a number of properties that distinguishes it. XDI is a graph-based data model. This means that all data is expressed using nodes and arcs in a graph...

Updated: 2020-12-01 6 minute read

BTCR
Danube Tech
Indy
OASIS
Planetwork
W3C
XDI

Identity Articles, Research and Literature

A selection of DID related literature and top level resources for discovery of more.

Updated: 2019-07-11 6 minute read

Accenture
DKMS
DPKI
Danube Tech
ID2020
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Verifiable Credentials
WEF
XDI
Zug
uPort

Bitcoin Identity Standards and Applications

The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Do...

Updated: 2020-01-07 4 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Ethereum
History
ION
Microsoft
RWoT
W3C
XDI

SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Credentials Community Group
DIDAuth
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
IBM
ID2020
Indy
JSON-LD
Jolocom
Learning Machine
Linked Data
OASIS
OTA
Ockam
RDF
RWoT
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
XDI
uPort

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

BTCR

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Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

BTCR
DID
DID:PEER
DIF
ERC725
Ethereum
ION
Identifiers and Discovery WG
JSON-LD
KERI
Linked Data
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

BTCR
Credentials Community Group
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN

Blockcerts

Blockcerts is an open standard for building apps that issue and verify blockchain-based official records. These may include certificates for civic records, academic credentials, professional licenses, workforce development, and more. Blockcerts consists of open-source libraries, tools, and mobile...

Updated: 2021-04-14 6 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
DHS
DID
Ethereum
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
RWoT
Verifiable Credentials

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

SSI-Meetup on Open Standards and Implementations

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
DID
DKMS
Ethereum
ION
Media
Microsoft
SSI-Meetup
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

XDI (XRI Data Interchange)

XDI is a technology for modeling, storing, and manipulating data. It fits into a similar category of technologies as JSON, XML and RDF, but also has a number of properties that distinguishes it. XDI is a graph-based data model. This means that all data is expressed using nodes and arcs in a graph...

Updated: 2020-12-01 6 minute read

BTCR
Danube Tech
Indy
OASIS
Planetwork
W3C
XDI

Bitcoin Identity Standards and Applications

The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Do...

Updated: 2020-01-07 4 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Ethereum
History
ION
Microsoft
RWoT
W3C
XDI

SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
Credentials Community Group
DIDAuth
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
IBM
ID2020
Indy
JSON-LD
Jolocom
Learning Machine
Linked Data
OASIS
OTA
Ockam
RDF
RWoT
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
XDI
uPort

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

DKMS

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IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

Department Homeland Security (DHS)

The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise. SVIP expands DHS S&T’s reach to find new technologies that strengthen n...

Updated: 2020-11-02 17 minute read

Blockcerts
Celerity
DHS
DKMS
Danube Tech
Digital Bazaar
Dignario
Evernym
Factom
Indicio
Learning Machine
MATTR
Mavnet
Mesur
Narf
Respect Network
SICPA
SecureKey
Solarity
Spherity
Stranger Labs
Transmute
Trinsic
USA
Verifiable Credentials
Verified.ME
W3C

Hyperledger Aries

One of the architectural components of Indy is called an Agent. This is software that acts on behalf of an identity owner to communicate off-ledger with other Agents. As Agent work continued with the development of message encryption standards, extensible message typing, and common protocols, int...

Updated: 2020-01-07 4 minute read

Aries
Bitcoin
Blockchain
DKMS
Indy
Verifiable Organizations Network

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

Accenture
BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockchain for Impact
Consensys
Credentials Community Group
DHS
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Digital Bazaar
ERC725
Ethereum
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
IBM
ID2020
Indy
Learning Machine
Linked Data
Mastercard
Microsoft
MyData
PGP
RWoT
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
UN/CEFACT
UNDP
UNHCR
UNSDGs
Universal Resolver
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
W3C
WEF
XDI
uPort

SSI-Meetup on Open Standards and Implementations

SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards. Our main mission is to help you connect with other SSI enthusiasts and create a dynamic, local, yet globally connected community.

Updated: 2019-07-20 1 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
DID
DKMS
Ethereum
ION
Media
Microsoft
SSI-Meetup
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

MyData

We are entrepreneurs, activists, academics, listed corporations, public agencies, and developers. For years, we’ve been using different words for what we do – MyData, Self Data, VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), Internet of Me, PIMS (Personal Information Management Services) etc, while sharin...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

AI
DKMS
GDPR
JLinc
Meeco
MyData
OAuth
Verifiable Credentials
eIDAS

Identity Articles, Research and Literature

A selection of DID related literature and top level resources for discovery of more.

Updated: 2019-07-11 6 minute read

Accenture
DKMS
DPKI
Danube Tech
ID2020
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Verifiable Credentials
WEF
XDI
Zug
uPort

Sovrin Related Literature and Media

Digital identity is one of the oldest and hardest problems on the Internet. There is still no way to use digital credentials to prove our online identity the same way we do in the offine world. This is finally changing. First, the World Wide Web Consortium is standardizing the format of digitally...

Updated: 2019-07-13 3 minute read

DKMS
Evernym
GDPR
Humanitarian
Indy
Literature
Sovrin Foundation
Trust Framework
Tykn

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

Rebooting Web Of Trust - Papers and Advance Readings Index

The Web of Trust. It’s the buzzword for a new model of decentralized identity. However, it’s also a phrase that dates back almost twenty-five years and has been heavily overloaded with meaning during that time. The classic definition of Web of Trust derives from PGP, but the top Google results re...

Updated: 2020-10-10 31 minute read

BTCR
Bitcoin
Blockcerts
Blockstack
California
Consensys
DID
DKMS
DPKI
Data Hubs
Digital Bazaar
Ethereum
GDPR
IPID
JSON-LD
PGP
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI
eIDAS

OAuth

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Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, “Verifiab...

Updated: 2022-12-12 20 minute read

Claims and Credentials WG
Credentials Community Group
FIDO
JSON-LD
OAuth
VC-WG
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

History (2010-2014) Personal Data: Emergence of a New Assets Class

Your IDENTITY is at the root of your relationship with any service providing company, including the telecom companies. Honestly sir, the proper structure of the global network that emanates out of US agencies, laboratories, universities, offices, homes and increasingly pockets, is one based on un...

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

Bitcoin
California
Credentials Community Group
DIACC
Danube Tech
FIDO
IBM
IDCommons
IndieAuth
Jolocom
Microsoft
NSTIC
Namecoin
OAuth
PCTF
Respect Network
Self Sovereign Identity
Swisscom
Trust Framework
W3C
WebAuthN
Windhover Principles
XDI

History (2000-2009) Augmented Social Network - Laws of Identity - User Centric

The first International Planetwork Conference - Global Ecology and Information Technology, San Francisco, May 2000. The community that developed around the Planetwork conferences, including Linktank, formed the social and intellectual foundation for what became known as Self Sovereign Identity.

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

Augmented Social Network
Digital Bazaar
FIDO
History
IDCommons
IIW
Laws of Identity
Microsoft
Neustar
OASIS
OAuth
OpenID
Planetwork
Verisign
XDI
YADIS

MyData

We are entrepreneurs, activists, academics, listed corporations, public agencies, and developers. For years, we’ve been using different words for what we do – MyData, Self Data, VRM (Vendor Relationship Management), Internet of Me, PIMS (Personal Information Management Services) etc, while sharin...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

AI
DKMS
GDPR
JLinc
Meeco
MyData
OAuth
Verifiable Credentials
eIDAS

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

OIDC

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Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Element Block Explorer
Blockchain
Consensys
Custom Authz Servers
DHS
DID
DID:GITHUB
DIF
Element
Encrypted Data Vaults
Ethereum
IOT
IPFS
Microsoft
OAuth
OIDC
Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
Verifiable Credentials

IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
BBS Signatures
Blockstack
CCPA
California
DID
DIDComm
DIF
DKMI
DKMS
Danube Tech
Ethereum
Evernym
FIDO
GDPR
GS1
ID2020
Indy
JLinc
JSON-LD
KERI
MATTR
MyData
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
Onfido
Respect Network
Trust Framework
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Ursa
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
WebAuthN
XDI
eIDAS
iRespond

Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

Blockcerts
Credentials Community Group
DKMS
ERC725
Ethereum
FIDO
Hyperledger
JSON-LD
Learning Machine
OASIS
OAuth
OIDC
OpenID
RWoT
Schema.org
Verifiable Credentials
W3C
XDI

ERC725

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Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

BTCR
DID
DID:PEER
DIF
ERC725
Ethereum
ION
Identifiers and Discovery WG
JSON-LD
KERI
Linked Data
Universal Registrar
Universal Resolver
Verifiable Credentials

(DID) the Decentralized Identifier

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to ty...

Updated: 2022-12-11 69 minute read

51nodes
ABT Network
Aergo
Alastria
ArcBlock
Ardor
BCGov
BIF
BOTLabs
BSC
Baidu
Besu
BiiLabs
Binance
Bitcoin
BlockchainCommons
Blockcore
Blocko
Blockstack
Celo
Ceramic Network
Chainyard
Cloudchain
Commercio
Consensys
Consent
Corda
Cosmos
Credentials Community Group
DID
DID:AERGO
DID:ALA
DID:AVVCYBER
DID:BBA
DID:BID
DID:BNB
DID:BRYK
DID:BTCR
DID:CCP
DID:CELO
DID:COM
DID:CORDA
DID:DID
DID:DOCK
DID:DOGE
DID:ECHO
DID:ELASTOS
DID:ELEM
DID:EMTRUST
DID:EOS
DID:ERC725
DID:ETHO
DID:ETHR
DID:EVAN
DID:FACTOM
DID:GATC
DID:GIT
DID:GITHUB
DID:GRG
DID:HEDERA
DID:HOLO
DID:ICON
DID:INDY
DID:IO
DID:ION
DID:IPID
DID:IS
DID:IWT
DID:JLINC
DID:JNCTN
DID:JOLO
DID:JWK
DID:KEY
DID:KILT
DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
DID:MORPHEUS
DID:NEAR
DID:NFT
DID:OBJECT
DID:OCKAM
DID:OMN
DID:ONION
DID:ONT
DID:OP
DID:ORB
DID:PANACEA
DID:PEER
DID:PISTIS
DID:PKH
DID:PTN
DID:SAN
DID:SCHEMA
DID:SELFKEY
DID:SIGNOR
DID:SIRIUS
DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
DID:TRX
DID:TTM
DID:TWIT
DID:TYRON
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History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

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Ethereum Identity Specs and Apps

Ethereum-based Decentralized Identity Specs, Literature, (d)Apps, and GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2020-11-05 8 minute read

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Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

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Schema.org Community Group

The Schema.org Community Group provides a forum for discussing all changes, additions and extensions to schema.org. In addition to providing a public setting for the day to day operation of the project, it serves as the mechanism for reviewing extensions and as a liaison point for all parties dev...

Updated: 2020-11-27 2 minute read

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MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

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The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents o...

Updated: 2021-04-18 5 minute read

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Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack

If you’re willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. You’ll also benefit from workin...

Updated: 2022-12-16 7 minute read

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XDI Technical Committee

The purpose of the OASIS XDI TC is to define a generalized, extensible, location-, application-, and transport-independent service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers), a URI-compatibl...

Updated: 2020-12-01 8 minute read

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Schema.org Community Group

The Schema.org Community Group provides a forum for discussing all changes, additions and extensions to schema.org. In addition to providing a public setting for the day to day operation of the project, it serves as the mechanism for reviewing extensions and as a liaison point for all parties dev...

Updated: 2020-11-27 2 minute read

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Linked Data and the Semantic Web

In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the world a preview of the revolutionary new changes they saw coming to the web. Since its introdu...

Updated: 2020-01-09 8 minute read

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JSON-LD

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents o...

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SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

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Adoption of Hyperledger Identity Initiatives

“Founding members of the Accelerator include industry leading organizations ATB Financial, IAG, Irish Life, the International Federation of Red Cross, Spark New Zealand, Truu and three provincial and state governments. Collectively, these organizations represent the interests of 100’s of millions...

Updated: 2019-03-05 5 minute read

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Magic Labs

When users want to sign up or log in to your application: User requests a magic link sent to their email address User clicks on that magic link User is securely logged into the applicationIf it’s a web application, users are logged into the original tab, even if the user clicked on the m...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

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World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

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IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

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WebAuthN Working Group

The Web Authentication Working Group will develop recommendation-track specifications defining an API, as well as signature and attestation formats which provide an asymmetric cryptography-based foundation for authentication of users to Web Applications. Overall goals include obviating the use of...

Updated: 2020-11-09 4 minute read

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History (2010-2014) Personal Data: Emergence of a New Assets Class

Your IDENTITY is at the root of your relationship with any service providing company, including the telecom companies. Honestly sir, the proper structure of the global network that emanates out of US agencies, laboratories, universities, offices, homes and increasingly pockets, is one based on un...

Updated: 2020-01-04 17 minute read

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Microsoft Identity

Microsoft believes everyone has the right to own their digital identity, one that securely and privately stores all personal data. This ID must seamlessly integrate into daily life and give complete control over data access and use.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Secure Data Storage

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Secure Data Storage WG - DIF

Secure, encrypted, privacy-preserving storage and computation of data is a critical component of decentralized identity systems. As with identifiers and names must be self-sovereign to the owning entity, a user’s identity data must remain private, only accessible to the entities they allow. DIF m...

Updated: 2020-11-26 3 minute read

DIF
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Storage and Compute WG
W3C

Microsoft Identity

Microsoft believes everyone has the right to own their digital identity, one that securely and privately stores all personal data. This ID must seamlessly integrate into daily life and give complete control over data access and use.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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Identifiers & Discovery Working Group - DIF

Members of the Working Group are engaged in development of protocols and systems that enable creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and names across underlying decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed ledgers.

Updated: 2020-11-26 6 minute read

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World Wide Web Consortium

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 4 minute read

BTCR
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Linked Data
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MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BBS Signatures
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Sovrin Foundation
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Linked Data and the Semantic Web

In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the world a preview of the revolutionary new changes they saw coming to the web. Since its introdu...

Updated: 2020-01-09 8 minute read

JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
RSA
Solid
Veres One
W3C

JSON-LD

The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data. Like the web of hypertext, the web of data is constructed with documents o...

Updated: 2021-04-18 5 minute read

Credentials Community Group
Digital Bazaar
JSON-LD
Linked Data
RDF
Schema.org
Veres One
Verifiable Credentials
W3C

History (2015-2019) Emergence of Blockchain for Identity and the United Nations

The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015. This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet a...

Updated: 2020-01-05 25 minute read

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SSI-DID Github Repositories

A start at listing all DID-SSI related GitHub Repositories.

Updated: 2019-03-15 25 minute read

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Universal Resolver
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Verifiable Organizations Network
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uPort

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Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

Element Block Explorer
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Okta
Okta Identity Cloud
Oracle
Sidetree
Transmute
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Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

Element Block Explorer
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(DID) the Decentralized Identifier

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to ty...

Updated: 2022-12-11 69 minute read

51nodes
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DID:AERGO
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DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
DID:MORPHEUS
DID:NEAR
DID:NFT
DID:OBJECT
DID:OCKAM
DID:OMN
DID:ONION
DID:ONT
DID:OP
DID:ORB
DID:PANACEA
DID:PEER
DID:PISTIS
DID:PKH
DID:PTN
DID:SAN
DID:SCHEMA
DID:SELFKEY
DID:SIGNOR
DID:SIRIUS
DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
DID:TRX
DID:TTM
DID:TWIT
DID:TYRON
DID:TYS
DID:TZ
DID:UNDID
DID:UNISOT
DID:UNS
DID:V1
DID:VAA
DID:VAULTIE
DID:VID
DID:VVO
DID:WEB
DID:WLK
DID:WORK
Digital Bazaar
Dock
EOS
ERC725
Echo
Elastos
Element
Email
Ethereum
Evan Network
Evernym
Fabric
Factom
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Gatica
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Hashgraph
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ProximaX
Quorum
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RWoT
Raonsecure
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SelfKey Identity
Sovrin
Sovrin Foundation
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TMChain
TOR
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Teleinfo CAICT
Token.TM
TranSendX
Transmute
Twitter
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VP
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Vivvo
W3C
Weelink
Workday
YLZ Inc
Zilliqa
bryk
cryptonics
lifeID
uPort

JWK

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(DID) the Decentralized Identifier

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to ty...

Updated: 2022-12-11 69 minute read

51nodes
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DID:AERGO
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DID:BID
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DID:BTCR
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DID:CELO
DID:COM
DID:CORDA
DID:DID
DID:DOCK
DID:DOGE
DID:ECHO
DID:ELASTOS
DID:ELEM
DID:EMTRUST
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DID:ERC725
DID:ETHO
DID:ETHR
DID:EVAN
DID:FACTOM
DID:GATC
DID:GIT
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DID:GRG
DID:HEDERA
DID:HOLO
DID:ICON
DID:INDY
DID:IO
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DID:IS
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DID:JOLO
DID:JWK
DID:KEY
DID:KILT
DID:KLAY
DID:LIFE
DID:META
DID:MOAC
DID:MORPHEUS
DID:NEAR
DID:NFT
DID:OBJECT
DID:OCKAM
DID:OMN
DID:ONION
DID:ONT
DID:OP
DID:ORB
DID:PANACEA
DID:PEER
DID:PISTIS
DID:PKH
DID:PTN
DID:SAN
DID:SCHEMA
DID:SELFKEY
DID:SIGNOR
DID:SIRIUS
DID:SOV
DID:STACK
DID:TAG
DID:TANGLE
DID:TRUSTBLOC
DID:TRX
DID:TTM
DID:TWIT
DID:TYRON
DID:TYS
DID:TZ
DID:UNDID
DID:UNISOT
DID:UNS
DID:V1
DID:VAA
DID:VAULTIE
DID:VID
DID:VVO
DID:WEB
DID:WLK
DID:WORK
Digital Bazaar
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EOS
ERC725
Echo
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Element
Email
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Evan Network
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lifeID
uPort

BBS Signatures

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IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

AI
Aries
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Blockstack
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California
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DKMS
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MATTR

We’ve designed our products based on a few key principles: extensible data formats, secure authentication protocols, a rigorous semantic data model, industry-standard cryptography, and the use of drivers and extensions to allow modular and configurable use of the platform over time.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

BBS Signatures
DHS
DID
JSON-LD
Linked Data
MATTR
Mattr
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Sovrin Foundation
Verifiable Credentials

DKMI

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KERI - Key Event Receipt Infrastructure

An identity system based secure overlay for the Internet is presented. This includes a primary root-of-trust in self-certifying identifiers. It presents a formalism for Autonomic Identifiers (AIDs) and Autonomic Namespaces (ANs). They are part of an Autonomic Identity System (AIS). This system us...

Updated: 2020-11-22 7 minute read

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IIW Session Topics (Unofficial)

If you want to stay current in digital identity, keeping an eye on the session topics of the biannual internet identity workshop is a good place to start.

Updated: 2020-11-10 102 minute read

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Encrypted Data Vaults

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Secure Data Storage WG - DIF

Secure, encrypted, privacy-preserving storage and computation of data is a critical component of decentralized identity systems. As with identifiers and names must be self-sovereign to the owning entity, a user’s identity data must remain private, only accessible to the entities they allow. DIF m...

Updated: 2020-11-26 3 minute read

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Karyl Fowler and History of Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2021-04-19 12 minute read

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Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to elim...

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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ISO 27001

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Spherity

Spherity’s Digital Twins enable innovative customer journeys across mobility, supply chain transparency, risk assessment, audit trails for data analytics, and many more use cases.Our developers and systems designers combine years of deep research in the emerging decentralized identity space with ...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

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MyDex

As a Community Interest Company we are legally committed to pursuing our mission of empowering individuals with their data. We are currently helping individuals and service providers use Personal data to better manage chronic health conditions, access debt advice, improve independent assisted liv...

Updated: 2023-03-30 less than 1 minute read

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Spherity

Spherity is building decentralized identity management solutions to power the 4th industrial revolution, bringing secure identities (“Digital Twins”) to machines, algorithms, and other non-human entities.

Updated: 2023-02-20 less than 1 minute read

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W3C History

First started as an IETF application area at the beginning of 1990, the Web standard stack, given its foreseen volume and applicative nature on top of the Internet protocols, quickly spun off its own forum. The W3C then laid the foundations of the Web with the development of HTML 4 and XML at the...

Updated: 2020-11-22 9 minute read

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DNS

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Handshake

Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). Our naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is not to replace DNS, b...

Updated: 2020-11-10 2 minute read

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Handshake

Barcode

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GS1 - The Global Language of Business

Gs1 introduced the barcode in 1974. We are a global, neutral, non-profit standards organisation that brings efficiency and transparency to the supply chain. Our standards are proven by industry and can help you achieve your public policy goals. Designed by consensus, our standards are proven, ope...

Updated: 2020-11-21 9 minute read

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RFID

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GS1 - The Global Language of Business

Gs1 introduced the barcode in 1974. We are a global, neutral, non-profit standards organisation that brings efficiency and transparency to the supply chain. Our standards are proven by industry and can help you achieve your public policy goals. Designed by consensus, our standards are proven, ope...

Updated: 2020-11-21 9 minute read

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SOIP

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(DID) Authentication Working Group - DIF

The purpose of this working group is to design, recommend and implement authentication and authorization protocols that rely upon open standards and cryptographic protocols using DIDs and DID Documents. Recommendations and development of specifications, protocols, and formats for data structures ...

Updated: 2020-11-26 2 minute read

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XRI

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The Dataweb: An Introduction to XDI

The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, exchanged, linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable dataweb using XML documents just as content from any content source can linked into the human-readable Web using HTML documents today. Because the controls needed t...

Updated: 2020-12-09 41 minute read

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XRI

XDI Technical Committee

The purpose of the OASIS XDI TC is to define a generalized, extensible, location-, application-, and transport-independent service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers), a URI-compatibl...

Updated: 2020-12-01 8 minute read

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XRI Technical Committee

The purpose of this TC is to define a syntax for abstract structured identifiers – identifiers that can be used within other URI schemes (such as http: and https: URIs) to share semantics across any number of domains and applications. The TC is also defining a simple XML descriptor format and HTT...

Updated: 2020-12-01 6 minute read

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Dataweb

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The Dataweb: An Introduction to XDI

The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, exchanged, linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable dataweb using XML documents just as content from any content source can linked into the human-readable Web using HTML documents today. Because the controls needed t...

Updated: 2020-12-09 41 minute read

Dataweb
History
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XRI

XDI Technical Committee

The purpose of the OASIS XDI TC is to define a generalized, extensible, location-, application-, and transport-independent service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using XML documents and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers), a URI-compatibl...

Updated: 2020-12-01 8 minute read

Dataweb
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XRI Technical Committee

The purpose of this TC is to define a syntax for abstract structured identifiers – identifiers that can be used within other URI schemes (such as http: and https: URIs) to share semantics across any number of domains and applications. The TC is also defining a simple XML descriptor format and HTT...

Updated: 2020-12-01 6 minute read

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ISO 18013-5

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(DIACC) The Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada

The Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada, known as the DIACC, is a non-profit coalition of public and private sector leaders committed to developing a Canadian framework for digital identification and authentication. The framework is intended to enable Canadians to complete...

Updated: 2020-12-04 48 minute read

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Object Capability Model

Computer scientist E. Dean Tribble stated that in smart contracts, identity-based access control did not support well dynamically changing permissions, compared to the object-capability model. He analogized the ocap model with giving a valet the key to one’s car, without handing over the right to...

Updated: 2021-04-19 6 minute read

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Object Capability Model

Computer scientist E. Dean Tribble stated that in smart contracts, identity-based access control did not support well dynamically changing permissions, compared to the object-capability model. He analogized the ocap model with giving a valet the key to one’s car, without handing over the right to...

Updated: 2021-04-19 6 minute read

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Public Benefit Corporation

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Indicio

Our software and infrastructure allows companies to confirm data authenticity repeatedly and efficiently from its source without the expense or risk of direct integrations. Privacy-by-design architecture simplifies data compliance and deploys continuous Zero-Trust security, boosting bottom-line p...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

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SMS

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Magic Labs

When users want to sign up or log in to your application: User requests a magic link sent to their email address User clicks on that magic link User is securely logged into the applicationIf it’s a web application, users are logged into the original tab, even if the user clicked on the m...

Updated: 2023-03-22 less than 1 minute read

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OpenID Connect

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Spruce Systems

SpruceID is an ecosystem of open source libraries to enable user-controlled identity anywhere. Kepler is a decentralized storage system that uses smart contracts to define where your data live and who has access. Enable reusable identity verifications across social media, DNS and more. Enable use...

Updated: 2023-03-31 less than 1 minute read

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FIDO2

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Spruce Systems

SpruceID is an ecosystem of open source libraries to enable user-controlled identity anywhere. Kepler is a decentralized storage system that uses smart contracts to define where your data live and who has access. Enable reusable identity verifications across social media, DNS and more. Enable use...

Updated: 2023-03-31 less than 1 minute read

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