As usual, I apologize for the last-minute notice, but here is an announcement.

My session is titled “SSO: Self-sovereign OpenID Connect
a ToDo List,” and I will discuss how to build Self-sovereign Identity using OpenID Connect.
People in the Self-sovereign Identity (SSI) community often say that OpenID Connect is user-centric and is not SSI, but that is a strange argument. OpenID Connect is a protocol and can be implemented in many different ways.
In this session, I will therefore explain that SSI can also be implemented with OpenID Connect.
2019-06-25 16:35 – 17:00 MONROE
SSO: Self-sovereign OpenID Connect – a ToDo list
While in many cases, OpenID Connect is described as the opposite of Self-sovereign identity, it actually is not. There is no need for OpenID provider to be run by a big cloud provider and most of the Self-sovereign identity requirements seems to be fulfilled by the Core protocol. However, there also are some specifics to…read more »Architecture and Standards
SPEAKER: Nat Sakimura
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