Archive - Phil Windley's Technometria

Using X.509 Certs for DID Provenance

Summary: The abundance of X.509 certificate authorities who already perform identity proofing for businesses provides a rich resouce that can be…

Apr 22 •

Relationships are Entangled

People aren't digitally embodied. As a result their online relationships are anemic. As we think about the kinds of digital identity systems that will…

Apr 16 •

March 2024

Web 2.0 is Collapsing Under its Own Weight

The overhead of performing even simple tasks online is getting larger and larger. I question the security of almost all these supposedly "secure…

Mar 27 •

Decentralizing Energy

The end of the Age of Oil

Mar 11 •

February 2024

Identity Metasystems and Lessons from Building the Sovrin Foundation

I recently spoke with Riley Hughes of Trinsic on his Future of Identity podcast about the birth of Sovrin Foundation, it's inevitable growing pains…

Feb 23 •

Zero Trust with Zero Data

The physical world is full of zero trust examples, but they gather attributes for the access control decisions in a very different way than we're used…

Feb 9 •

January 2024

Acceptance Networks for Self-Sovereign Identity

We can't have broad adoption of verifiable credentials until we find a way to scale their presentation by providing tooling that credential verifiers…

Jan 29 •

Exploring Digital Identity

I was recently on the Identity at the Center podcast speaking with hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman. We discussed my journey into the field of…

Jan 16 •

November 2023

SSI is the Key to Claiming Ownership in an AI-Enabled World

I've been trying to be intentional about using generative AI for more and more tasks in my life. For example, the image above is generated by DALL-E. I…

Nov 24, 2023 •

dApps Are About Control, Not Blockchains

I recently read Igor Shadurin's article Dive Into dApps. In it, he defines a dApp (or decentralized application): The commonly accepted definition of a…

Nov 13, 2023 •

Permissionless and One-to-One

In a recent post, Clive Thompson speaks of the humble cassette tape as a medium that had a a weirdly Internet-like vibe. Clive is focusing on how the…

Nov 2, 2023 •

October 2023

Cloudless: Computing at the Edge

New use cases will naturally drive more computing away from centralized cloud platforms to the edge. The future is cloudless.

Oct 27, 2023 •

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