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#

W3C Decentralized Identifiers is an Architecture for Decentralized Identity

Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)#

Decentralized Identity Foundation is an Open Source Decentralized Identity ecosystem for people, organizations, apps, and devices.

Implementations of Decentralized Identity#

• Sovrin
• uPort
• selfkey

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• DID descriptor objects
• Decentralized Identity Foundation
• Domain of OneS Own
• Independent Identity
• Multi-Source Identity
• Self-Sovereign Identity
• UPort
• User-centric Identity