Archive - Phil Windley's Technometria

Internet Identity Workshop XXXVIII Report

We recently completed the 38th edition of the Internet Identity Workshop. We had 330 people from around the world who called 169 sessions. As usual…

May 1 •

April 2024

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 •

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