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a global and decentralized authentication authority that respects user privacy by design.

• arcticbull 5y ago
  Not your keys, not your life is the worst idea to come out of crypto. And that's really saying something IMO.
  • a-dub 5y ago
    you can still have counterparties hold portions of keys for recovery purposes and those counterparties would have less visibility into your online activities than current "sso for the web" offerings from large internet companies.
    • arcticbull 5y ago
      Those companies offer a means of account recovery through them, and also, everywhere I've SSO'd also offers a separate un-linked account recovery mechanism.
      • a-dub 5y ago
        sure. but the point is, current "sso for the web" offerings have three problems: 1) the sso provider has full visibility into where you use their service. 2) sso provider operations are opaque. 3) other internet services don't trust them. (i can't sign into my bank with Google yet) maybe we need an iana for authentication, but a decentralized database may be an easier sell. or maybe with more time more adoption will take place of the big sso providers. it still seems to be a problem to me and i favor an open solution over more reliance on large internet companies.
• nomel 5y ago
  I'll assume my perspective is naive here, so feel free to correct me, but, at least with the case of bitcoin, having an immutable transaction history doesn't seem to be a way to promote privacy, as evidence by the Dread Pirate Roberts transaction history, and where that got him. A "privacy by design" would have tumbling/anonymity built in, which isn't a requisite for a blockchain, and not part of the most famous one, bitcoin.
  • a-dub 5y ago
    if your transactions are the act of publishing, revoking and reissuing new public keys, then immutability is a very desirable property. where you use those keys to identify yourself remains a private matter between you and the entity you authenticate yourself to.