Following the Sovrin Foundation’s announcement detailing reductions in their team, we thought we’d share our own thinking. Sovrin is now the world’s premier network dedicated to decentralized identity, with 60+ stewards including organizations such as IBM, NEC, and CULedger. Sovrin is one of the few identity networks with real-world use cases in production today. It’s […]
A rebuttal to Arnold and Longley’s article Daniel Hardman, March 2020 CONTENTS Abstract Setting Expectations Rebuttal 1. The article defines “zero-knowledge proofs” too narrowly, setting up a basic fallacy. 2. It exaggerates and quotes experts out of context to build a straw man model of anonymity. 3. It oversimplifies the basis of trust. 4. It […]
Next week, Hyperledger is bringing together over a thousand industry leaders and practitioners from around the world for its annual Hyperledger Global Forum (March 3-6) in Phoenix, Arizona. The event is designed to drive awareness, education, adoption, and advancement of enterprise blockchain technology while giving attendees the opportunity to collaborate with other contributors and learn […]
In a previous post, I described how verifiable credentials differ in their approach to privacy: Correlating credentials correlate their holder to a disclosed identifier, and a disclosed signature, that’s the same in every use of a given credential. Other attributes are often identical as well, but these two perfect correlators are guaranteed to be present […]
