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Blockchains have very little to do with "secure identity", and in fact more frequently serve to damage the security of the individual. If everything is recorde
by martindale 7y ago
Blockchains have very little to do with "secure identity", and in fact more frequently serve to damage the security of the individual. If everything is recorded in a central ledger, how long do you think it takes for oppression to emerge?
- keypusher 7y agoAs opposed to being stored in Google/Facebook's databases? I don't know if blockchain is the answer, but I would prefer not to trust any of these large corporations and use a decentralized identity system where no third-party has control of my identity information.
- fbrusch 7y agoIn self sovereign identity systems based on verifiable claims, attributes are attested through signed claims on digital identifiers that the user control (e.g. a public key). Blockchains here are the most effective mean to implement claim revocation: if someone who produced a claim wants to revoke it, he writes that on a blockchain.