Overview#
Decentralized Identity (
Independent Identity) is a
Digital Identity that has the following characteristics:
- No central authority grants, monitors, controls, manages, deletes it
- High privacy and high security are achievable (though not guaranteed)
- You choose how and where it is used
- Portable by you across contexts (Bring Your Own Identity)
- All identities are peers (corrects power imbalance)
- Surprising ramifications for regulation, UX
W3C Decentralized Identifiers is an
Architecture for Decentralized Identity
Decentralized Identity Foundation is an
Open Source Decentralized Identity ecosystem for people, organizations, apps, and devices.
Implementations of Decentralized Identity#
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