Privacy Preserving Social Login Using Hypersign
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-11-16
Introduction Social logins like Facebook, Google are common Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanisms for authentication in websites (also called service providers) these days. The social login helps service providers to quickly onboard a user without requiring them to go through the registration process. This way, on one hand, the service providers can provide seamless onboarding to their user and on the other hand, the user need not to type his details like name, email, phone number, every time he avails a service from a new provider.
Data breaches have become common in consumer-facing apps in India; How Hypersign can help?
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-11-02
Abstract The consumer-facing applications are more vulnerable for data breaches as they have a large customer base and they usually stored the user data in a central location. The consumer-facing app provider often has to choose between security and usability and they end up giving priority to the later one as usability become important growth factor. That allows a hacker to steal user data. In this blog, we are going to talk about problems, challenges which service providers face, especially with respect to user data protection and privacy, and what could be possible ways to solve that problem.
Summary of ‘Digital Identity – Foundation for a New Economy’ webinar organised by Citi bank @ 10/22/2020
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-10-23
Introduction Yesterday, I got an opportunity to attend a webinar titles, Digital Identity – Foundation for a New Economy. I was super excited about this webinar since my area of interest is decentralised identity. I found the webinar very insightful and thought that it would be good if I can summarize the session in a blog post so that others (who could not attend) can get benefit of it. Panellist Host Panellist 1 Panellist 2 Panellist 3 Panellist 4 Gary Schneider Arvind Gupta Keit Pentus-Rosimannus David Birch Johan Schmalholz Managing Director at Citi Data & Digital Economy, Platform Policy, New Media & Startups.
Hypersign v1.0 is released; A visual representation of SSI!
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-10-02
We have been exploring the Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) space for quite some time and today we came up with the first implementation of SSI specification proposed by W3C credential community. Disclaimer This is going to be a long blog since a lot of concept needs to be explain. But I will try to do full justice to your time by explaining SSI with a visual demonstration using a simple use case on Hypersign Studio.
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