Overview#

Independent Identity (indy) (or Decentralized Identity) is a Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) or 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

More Information#

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

• Administrative Identity
• Decentralized Identity
• Hyperledger Indy
• Indy

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• [#1] - Defining Characteristics of Decentralized Identity - based on information obtained 2018-06-13-