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Identity
(trace online accounts across various kinds of contiunity)
Use Cases/Motivations
Why do we care about identity anyway?
- ability to control access to private data and over an account (ie need to identify myself, this is me, this is my account)
- ability to communicate with a person across platforms, ie 'send this message to X on whatever platform he is on' (ie need to find another person by their identity as a person)
- ability to track reputation and credibility of a user across platforms
- ability to identify things other than humans, ie accounts, corporations, organizations, documents
Decentralized identity
- DIDs or Decentralized Identifiers are a W3C standard
Simple example:
did:example:123456789abcdefghi^^ scheme identifier ^^ did method ^^ method-specific identifier
Pseudonymity
- reputation requires a long term handle of some sort
Key management
Key verification
Key backup
Reputation, Trust
Social graph proof
- Handshake problem and collusion protection (see IRIS)