Technical explanation of Two-Way-Authentication; Linking DID with Website Origin
By Vishwas Anand on 2022-06-22
Two features we proudly announce on our website are; Two-Way Authentication and Independent Verification. We will talk about the latter in some other blog but for this blog, let us just stick to the feature - Two-Way Authentication. The question is what is this feature and how it can be technically implemented and proven that it MAY help to stop phishing attacks. Two-Way Authentication Traditionally, when a user tries to log in to a website through a thrid party auth provider (or Identity Provider) like Google Login or Facebook Login, a user is asked to allow access to his/her data by showing him a popup.
Avatars May Use SSI In Metaverse To Prove Identity
By Vishwas Anand on 2022-01-07
Image Credit: https://www.verizon.com Introduction Metaverse has been in the news for quite some time now. Seems like the next “buzzword” after “blockchain” in the tech space. The tech got a surge especially after Facebook decided to change its name to Meta. In this blog, we will understand what is Metaverse (a very basic intro) and its relationship with digital identities. The focus will be on explaining why decentralized digital identities are an important tool for Metaverse to replicate the real world.
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.
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.
#SSI #digital identity #DID #verifiable-credential #verifiable-presenatation #hypersign
Why blockchain is important tool for SSI (The self sovereign identity) system?
By Vishwas Anand on 2020-09-27
This blog can be considered as a follow-up blog (but not necessarily) of a series of blogs on digital identity. Digital Identity; Past, Present and Future: Where we talked about how digital identity evolved over a period of time and where it is heading to - the SSI. In depth introduction to Self Sovereign Identity (SSI): We took a deep dive into some of the core components of SSI to understand its terminologies and overall architecture.
#SSI #digital identity #DID #authentication #centralised #federated #blockchain #user-centric
In depth introduction to Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)
By Vishwas Anand , Likitha Soorea on 2020-06-14
In our previous blog titles - Digital Identity: Past, Present and Future, we went through the journey of digital identity and tried understanding how it evolved over the period and where it is heading. We ended our discussion with the basic introduction of Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) system. If you have not read that blog, I encourage you to read that first before proceeding with this blog. In this blog, we will take a deeper dive into SSI and will try understanding how it works under the hood.
#SSI #digital identity #DID #authentication #centralised #federated #user-centric
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