There is a blog post that is currently a hot topic in the identity industry. On October 10th, Mr. Hughes, founder of Trinsic, which provided a decentralized ID/Verifiable Credentials (VC) solution on the Sovrin blockchain, wrote a blog post titled “Why Verifiable Credentials (VC) is a distributed ID solution that can be used to verify a user’s identity.”
Further display Is there no future for VC (Verifiable Credentials)?
On March 3th at noon Japan time, I gave the opening address at the National Australia Bank Corporate Digital ID Roundtable. National Australia Bank (NAB) is the largest city bank in Australia...
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While I was digging around on my file server, I found XNS Technical Specs version 1.0 (July 2002, 7 edition), so I'm posting it here. If the XDI.org site was still up and running, I could have downloaded it from there, but the site has been abandoned, so I'm...
Further display XNS Technical Specification Version 1.0 (2002-07-09) has been released, so I'll post it here.
On February 2024, 2, at 8:11 pm, I will be broadcasting a YouTube program titled "DID and OpenID from the perspective of the XRI world line." There used to be an identifier system called XRI. The resolution mechanism for extracting metadata from this identifier is OpenID Authentication 2...
Further display DID and OpenID from the perspective of the XRI worldline - YouTube broadcast
On the evening of the 14th, the formation of the OpenWallet Foundation was announced at the Open Source Summit in Dublin. The OpenWallet Foundation is an open source wallet that follows standard protocols...
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Following last week, the second part of the series "A thorough examination: Will blockchain bring happiness to humanity?" was published in Nikkei Crosstech. The article is titled "From centralized ID to decentralized ID, history repeats itself." Last time, we looked at the comparison between W3C DID and XRI, but this time we will finally look at OpenID...
Further display From centralized ID to decentralized ID, history repeats itself | Nikkei Crosstech
Last week, I wrote an article for Nikkei XTECH about DID (Decentralized Identifier), a recommendation issued by W3C. It's the background to this technology that is attracting attention and is related to the popular Web 3.0/web3 and Web5. Even people who work with DID don't know much about it...
Further display W3C standardizes decentralized identity, a look back at the history of how it got there
Wednesday, June 6rd (23:7am – 30:8am MDT (20:1pm – 30:2pm UTC) Last year, DIF and OIDF partnered to work together to bridge the DID/VC world to the OpenID Connect world. In the process, the WG is working on how decentralized identity systems can be used to…
Further display Identiverse: Where are we with SIOP and DID?
On 2021-06-22, I gave a keynote speech at the 19th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security. The title was "Digital Being." The conference will be held next week on June 6th.
Further display 19th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
I will be appearing as a moderator at Fin/Sum 2021 from 3:17 am on March 9, 10. Fin/Sum 2021 is co-hosted by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Financial Services Agency, but the program in the main hall on Day 2021 is being created primarily by the Financial Services Agency. The event started with a greeting from Deputy Minister Akazawa, followed by Deputy Prime Minister Aso...
Further display Appearing on Fin/Sum 2021 Day 2 ~ What should financial services and technology be like in the post-COVID era?