Digital Identity: Past; Present; Future
By Vishwas Anand , Likitha Soorea on 2020-04-19
Today, many countries across the globe are implementing digital identities to accelerate the adoption of their digital services. While going through the research articles on digital identities, one of the questions raised is “why is the digital industry looking up for it?”. We’d like to share some experiences on this journey, let’s start with a basic question “what is an identity?” take a moment to think… and try to put the thoughts into a clear definition.
#SSI #digital identity #DID #authentication #centralised #federated #user-centric
Trustless - The third vertical of credentials management
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-03-14
Identity management (IM) has always been a challenge for companies, whether it’s securing their internal employee’s access to company systems and applications, or securing their customers to access the web apps and databases. This aspect has two major components, Management of identity and Management by identity. Management of identity is primarily Authentication and Management by identity is Authorization. Traditionally, common methods of managing digital identities such as usernames and passwords have been proven to be less secure.
#trust #trustless #fido #authentication #passwordless #public-key-infrastructure #cryptography
A quick introduction of Biometrics
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-03-14
In this blog, our purpose is to take an in-depth look at how biometrics works. There are multiple types of Biometrics like Facial characteristics, Fingerprints, Iris pattern etc. and they are fairly complex to understand. So we will just focus on Fingerprints, to make biometric identification process simple and easy to understand. We will start with the definition of Biometric and its types. Then will talk about how fingerprint works, where we will talk about different stages of fingerprint verification process.