توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
در هویت مستقل: هویت دیجیتال غیرمتمرکز و اعتبارنامه های قابل تأیید، خواهید آموخت که چگونه SSI به ما اجازه می دهد اعتبارنامه های دارای امضای دیجیتال را دریافت کنیم، آنها را در کیف پول های خصوصی ذخیره کنیم و هویت آنلاین خود را به طور ایمن اثبات کنیم. .
خلاصه
در دنیایی که قوانین حریم خصوصی در حال تغییر است، سرقت هویت و ناشناس بودن آنلاین، هویت یک مفهوم گرانبها و پیچیده است. هویت خودمختار (SSI) مجموعهای از فناوریها است که کنترل هویت دیجیتال را از «ارائهدهندگان هویت» شخص ثالث مستقیماً به افراد منتقل میکند و وعده میدهد که یکی از مهمترین روندها برای دهههای آینده باشد. اکنون در Self-Sovereign Identity، متخصصان حریم خصوصی و داده های شخصی Drummond Reed و Alex Preukschat نقشه راهی برای آینده حاکمیت شخصی ارائه می دهند که توسط بلاک چین و رمزنگاری تقویت می شود. با برش دادن اصطلاحات فنی با ده ها مورد استفاده عملی از متخصصان در تمام صنایع بزرگ، استدلال واضح و قانع کننده ای برای اینکه چرا SSI یک تغییر پارادایم است ارائه می دهد و نشان می دهد که چگونه می توانید برای آن آماده باشید.
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درباره فناوری
اعتماد به اینترنت به پایین ترین حد خود رسیده است. شرکتها و موسسات بزرگ دادههای شخصی ما را کنترل میکنند، زیرا ما هرگز راهی ساده، ایمن و قوی برای اثبات آنلاین بودن خود نداشتهایم. هویت خودمختار (SSI) همه اینها را تغییر می دهد.
درباره کتاب
در Self-Sovereign Identity: Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized Digital ID و اعتبارنامه های قابل تأیید، خواهید آموخت که چگونه SSI به ما اجازه می دهد اعتبارنامه های امضا شده دیجیتالی دریافت کنیم، آنها را در کیف پول های خصوصی ذخیره کنیم و هویت آنلاین خود را به طور ایمن اثبات کنیم. این یک مقدمه واضح و بدون اصطلاحات خاص برای این تغییر پارادایم الهام گرفته از بلاک چین با مقالات جالبی که توسط متخصصان برجسته آن نوشته شده است را ترکیب می کند. چه برای انتقال دارایی، بانکداری الکترونیک، سفر بدون اصطکاک یا خدمات شخصیسازی شده، مدل SSI برای اعتماد دیجیتال، آینده جمعی ما را تغییر خواهد داد.
آنچه در داخل است
معماری نرم افزار و خدمات SSI
مفاهیم فنی، قانونی و حاکمیتی پشت SSI
چگونه SSI بر تجارت جهانی صنعت به صنعت تأثیر می گذارد
استانداردهای نوظهور برای SSI
درباره خواننده
برای خوانندگان فناوری و کسب و کار. بدون نیاز به تجربه قبلی SSI، رمزنگاری یا بلاک چین.
درباره نویسندگان
دراموند رید مدیر ارشد اعتماد در Evernym، یک رهبر فناوری در SSI است. Alex Preukschat یکی از بنیانگذاران SSMeetup.org و AlianzaBlockchain.org است.
فهرست محتوا
بخش 1: مقدمه ای بر SSI
1 چرا اینترنت یک لایه هویتی را از دست داده است - و چرا SSI در نهایت می تواند یک لایه را ارائه دهد
2 بلوک های ساختمان اصلی SSI
3 سناریوهای نمونه که نشان می دهد SSI چگونه کار می کند
4 کارت امتیازی SSI: ویژگی ها و مزایای اصلی SSI
بخش 2: فناوری SSI
5 معماری SSI: تصویر بزرگ
6 تکنیک رمزنگاری اساسی برای SSI
7 اعتبار قابل تایید
8 شناسه غیرمتمرکز
9 کیف پول دیجیتال و نمایندگی های دیجیتال
10 مدیریت کلید غیر متمرکز
11 چارچوب حاکمیت SSI
بخش 3: تمرکززدایی به عنوان الگویی برای زندگی
12 چگونه نرم افزار منبع باز به شما کمک می کند تا هویت خودمختار خود را کنترل کنید
13 Cypherpunks: منشا تمرکززدایی
14 هویت غیر متمرکز برای یک جامعه صلح آمیز
15 سیستم های اعتقادی به عنوان محرک برای انتخاب های فناوری در تمرکززدایی
16 خاستگاه جامعه SSI
17 هویت پول است
بخش 4: چگونه SSI کسب و کار شما را تغییر خواهد داد
18 توضیح ارزش SSI برای تجارت
19 فرصت اینترنت اشیا
20 مراقبت و سرپرستی از حیوانات به تازگی شفاف شده است
21 دموکراسی باز، رأی گیری، و SSI
22 زنجیره تامین بهداشت و درمان توسط SSI
23 کانادا: توانمندسازی هویت خودمختار
24 از eIDAS تا SSI در اتحادیه اروپا
فهرست مطالب :
Self-Sovereign Identity
brief contents
contents
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
Who should read this book
About the code
liveBook discussion forum
Other online resources
about the authors
about the cover illustration
Part 1 An introduction to SSI
1 Why the internet is missing an identity layer—and why SSI can finally provide one
1.1 How bad has the problem become?
1.2 Enter blockchain technology and decentralization
1.3 The three models of digital identity
1.3.1 The centralized identity model
1.3.2 The federated identity model
1.3.3 The decentralized identity model
1.4 Why “self-sovereign”?
1.5 Why is SSI so important?
1.6 Market drivers for SSI
1.6.1 E-commerce
1.6.2 Banking and finance
1.6.3 Healthcare
1.6.4 Travel
1.7 Major challenges to SSI adoption
1.7.1 Building out the new SSI ecosystem
1.7.2 Decentralized key management
1.7.3 Offline access
References
2 The basic building blocks of SSI
2.1 Verifiable credentials
2.2 Issuers, holders, and verifiers
2.3 Digital wallets
2.4 Digital agents
2.5 Decentralized identifiers (DIDs)
2.6 Blockchains and other verifiable data registries
2.7 Governance frameworks
2.8 Summarizing the building blocks
References
3 Example scenarios showing how SSI works
3.1 A simple notation for SSI scenario diagrams
3.2 Scenario 1: Bob meets Alice at a conference
3.3 Scenario 2: Bob meets Alice through her online blog
3.4 Scenario 3: Bob logs in to Alice’s blog to leave a comment
3.5 Scenario 4: Bob meets Alice through an online dating site
3.6 Scenario 5: Alice applies for a new bank account
3.7 Scenario 6: Alice buys a car
3.8 Scenario 7: Alice sells the car to Bob
3.9 Scenario summary
Reference
4 SSI Scorecard: Major features and benefits of SSI
4.1 Feature/benefit category 1: Bottom line
4.1.1 Fraud reduction
4.1.2 Reduced customer onboarding costs
4.1.3 Improved e-commerce sales
4.1.4 Reduced customer service costs
4.1.5 New credential issuer revenue
4.2 Feature/benefit category 2: Business efficiencies
4.2.1 Auto-authentication
4.2.2 Auto-authorization
4.2.3 Workflow automation
4.2.4 Delegation and guardianship
4.2.5 Payment and value exchange
4.3 Feature/benefit category 3: User experience and convenience
4.3.1 Auto-authentication
4.3.2 Auto-authorization
4.3.3 Workflow automation
4.3.4 Delegation and guardianship
4.3.5 Payment and value exchange
4.4 Feature/benefit category 4: Relationship management
4.4.1 Mutual authentication
4.4.2 Permanent connections
4.4.3 Premium private channels
4.4.4 Reputation management
4.4.5 Loyalty and rewards programs
4.5 Feature/benefit category 5: Regulatory compliance
4.5.1 Data security
4.5.2 Data privacy
4.5.3 Data protection
4.5.4 Data portability
4.5.5 RegTech (Regulation Technology)
References
Part 2 SSI technology
5 SSI architecture: The big picture
5.1 The SSI stack
5.2 Layer 1: Identifiers and public keys
5.2.1 Blockchains as DID registries
5.2.2 Adapting general-purpose public blockchains for SSI
5.2.3 Special-purpose blockchains designed for SSI
5.2.4 Conventional databases as DID registries
5.2.5 Peer-to-peer protocols as DID registries
5.3 Layer 2: Secure communication and interfaces
5.3.1 Protocol design options
5.3.2 Web-based protocol design using TLS
5.3.3 Message-based protocol design using DIDComm
5.3.4 Interface design options
5.3.5 API-oriented interface design using wallet Dapps
5.3.6 Data-oriented interface design using identity hubs (encrypted data vaults)
5.3.7 Message-oriented interface design using agents
5.4 Layer 3: Credentials
5.4.1 JSON Web Token (JWT) format
5.4.2 Blockcerts format
5.4.3 W3C verifiable credential formats
5.4.4 Credential exchange protocols
5.5 Layer 4: Governance frameworks
5.6 Potential for convergence
References
6 Basic cryptography techniques for SSI
6.1 Hash functions
6.1.1 Types of hash functions
6.1.2 Using hash functions in SSI
6.2 Encryption
6.2.1 Symmetric-key cryptography
6.2.2 Asymmetric-key cryptography
6.3 Digital signatures
6.4 Verifiable data structures
6.4.1 Cryptographic accumulators
6.4.2 Merkle trees
6.4.3 Patricia tries
6.4.4 Merkle-Patricia trie: A hybrid approach
6.5 Proofs
6.5.1 Zero-knowledge proofs
6.5.2 ZKP applications for SSI
6.5.3 A final note about proofs and veracity
References
7 Verifiable credentials
7.1 Example uses of VCs
7.1.1 Opening a bank account
7.1.2 Receiving a free local access pass
7.1.3 Using an electronic prescription
7.2 The VC ecosystem
7.3 The VC trust model
7.3.1 Federated identity management vs. VCs
7.3.2 Specific trust relationships in the VC trust model
7.3.3 Bottom-up trust
7.4 W3C and the VC standardization process
7.5 Syntactic representations
7.5.1 JSON
7.5.2 Beyond JSON: Adding standardized properties
7.5.3 JSON-LD
7.5.4 JWT
7.6 Basic VC properties
7.7 Verifiable presentations
7.8 More advanced VC properties
7.8.1 Refresh service
7.8.2 Disputes
7.8.3 Terms of use
7.8.4 Evidence
7.8.5 When the holder is not the subject
7.9 Extensibility and schemas
7.10 Zero-knowledge proofs
7.11 Protocols and deployments
7.12 Security and privacy evaluation
7.13 Hurdles to adoption
References
8 Decentralized identifiers
8.1 The conceptual level: What is a DID?
8.1.1 URIs
8.1.2 URLs
8.1.3 URNs
8.1.4 DIDs
8.2 The functional level: How DIDs work
8.2.1 DID documents
8.2.2 DID methods
8.2.3 DID resolution
8.2.4 DID URLs
8.2.5 Comparison with the Domain Name System (DNS)
8.2.6 Comparison with URNs and other persistent Identifiers
8.2.7 Types of DIDs
8.3 The architectural level: Why DIDs work
8.3.1 The core problem of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
8.3.2 Solution 1: The conventional PKI model
8.3.3 Solution 2: The web-of-trust model
8.3.4 Solution 3: Public key-based identifiers
8.3.5 Solution 4: DIDs and DID documents
8.4 Four benefits of DIDs that go beyond PKI
8.4.1 Beyond PKI benefit 1: Guardianship and controllership
8.4.2 Beyond PKI benefit 2: Service endpoint discovery
8.4.3 Beyond PKI benefit 3: DID-to-DID connections
8.4.4 Beyond PKI benefit 4: Privacy by design at scale
8.5 The semantic level: What DIDs mean
8.5.1 The meaning of an address
8.5.2 DID networks and digital trust ecosystems
8.5.3 Why isn’t a DID human-meaningful?
8.5.4 What does a DID identify?
9 Digital wallets and digital agents
9.1 What is a digital wallet, and what does it typically contain?
9.2 What is a digital agent, and how does it typically work with a digital wallet?
9.3 An example scenario
9.4 Design principles for SSI digital wallets and agents
9.4.1 Portable and Open-By-Default
9.4.2 Consent-driven
9.4.3 Privacy by design
9.4.4 Security by design
9.5 Basic anatomy of an SSI digital wallet and agent
9.6 Standard features of end-user digital wallets and agents
9.6.1 Notifications and user experience
9.6.2 Connecting: Establishing new digital trust relationships
9.6.3 Receiving, offering, and presenting digital credentials
9.6.4 Revoking and expiring digital credentials
9.6.5 Authenticating: Logging you in
9.6.6 Applying digital signatures
9.7 Backup and recovery
9.7.1 Automatic encrypted backup
9.7.2 Offline recovery
9.7.3 Social recovery
9.7.4 Multi-device recovery
9.8 Advanced features of wallets and agents
9.8.1 Multiple-device support and wallet synchronization
9.8.2 Offline operations
9.8.3 Verifying the verifier
9.8.4 Compliance and monitoring
9.8.5 Secure data storage (vault) support
9.8.6 Schemas and overlays
9.8.7 Emergencies
9.8.8 Insurance
9.9 Enterprise wallets
9.9.1 Delegation (rights, roles, permissions)
9.9.2 Scale
9.9.3 Specialized wallets and agents
9.9.4 Credential revocation
9.9.5 Special security considerations
9.10 Guardianship and delegation
9.10.1 Guardian wallets
9.10.2 Guardian delegates and guardian credentials
9.11 Certification and accreditation
9.12 The Wallet Wars: The evolving digital wallet/agent marketplace
9.12.1 Who
9.12.2 What
9.12.3 How
Reference
10 Decentralized key management
10.1 Why any form of digital key management is hard
10.2 Standards and best practices for conventional key management
10.3 The starting point for key management architecture: Roots of trust
10.4 The special challenges of decentralized key management
10.5 The new tools that VCs, DIDs, and SSI bring to decentralized key management
10.5.1 Separating identity verification from public key verification
10.5.2 Using VCs for proof of identity
10.5.3 Automatic key rotation
10.5.4 Automatic encrypted backup with both offline and social recovery methods
10.5.5 Digital guardianship
10.6 Key management with ledger-based DID methods (algorithmic roots of trust)
10.7 Key management with peer-based DID methods (self-certifying roots of trust)
10.8 Fully autonomous decentralized key management with Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI)
10.8.1 Self-certifying identifiers as a root of trust
10.8.2 Self-certifying key event logs
10.8.3 Witnesses for key event logs
10.8.4 Pre-rotation as simple, safe, scalable protection against key compromise
10.8.5 System-independent validation (ambient verifiability)
10.8.6 Delegated self-certifying identifiers for enterprise-class key management
10.8.7 Compatibility with the GDPR “right to be forgotten”
10.8.8 KERI standardization and the KERI DID method
10.8.9 A trust-spanning layer for the internet
10.9 Key takeaways
References
11 SSI governance frameworks
11.1 Governance frameworks and trust frameworks: Some background
11.2 The governance trust triangle
11.3 The Trust over IP governance stack
11.3.1 Layer 1: Utility governance frameworks
11.3.2 Layer 2: Provider governance frameworks
11.3.3 Layer 3: Credential governance frameworks
11.3.4 Layer 4: Ecosystem governance frameworks
11.4 The role of the governance authority
11.5 What specific problems can governance frameworks solve?
11.5.1 Discovery of authoritative issuers and verified members
11.5.2 Anti-coercion
11.5.3 Certification, accreditation, and trust assurance
11.5.4 Levels of assurance (LOAs)
11.5.5 Business rules
11.5.6 Liability and insurance
11.6 What are the typical elements of a governance framework?
11.6.1 Master document
11.6.2 Glossary
11.6.3 Risk assessment, trust assurance, and certification
11.6.4 Governance rules
11.6.5 Business rules
11.6.6 Technical rules
11.6.7 Information trust rules
11.6.8 Inclusion, equitability, and accessibility rules
11.6.9 Legal agreements
11.7 Digital guardianship
11.8 Legal enforcement
11.9 Examples
References
Part 3 Decentralization as a model for life
12 How open source software helps you control your self-sovereign identity
12.1 The origin of free software
12.2 Wooing businesses with open source
12.3 How open source works in practice
12.4 Open source and digital identities
References
13 Cypherpunks: The origin of decentralization
13.1 The origins of modern cryptography
13.2 The birth of the cypherpunk movement
13.3 Digital freedom, digital cash, and decentralization
13.4 From cryptography to cryptocurrency to credentials
References
14 Decentralized identity for a peaceful society
14.1 Technology and society
14.2 A global civil society
14.3 Identity as a source of conflict
14.4 Identity as a source of peace
References
15 Belief systems as drivers for technology choices in decentralization
15.1 What is a belief system?
15.2 Blockchain and DLT as belief systems
15.2.1 Blockchain “believers”
15.2.2 DLT “believers”
15.3 How are blockchains and DLTs relevant to SSI?
15.4 Characterizing differences between blockchain and DLT
15.4.1 Governance: How open is the network to open participation?
15.4.2 Censorship resistance: How centralized is trust?
15.4.3 Openness: Who can run a node?
15.5 Why “believers” and not “proponents” or “partisans”?
15.5.1 How do we measure decentralization?
15.6 Technical advantages of decentralization
References
16 The origins of the SSI community
16.1 The birth of the internet
16.2 Losing control over our personal information
16.3 Pretty Good Privacy
16.4 International Planetwork Conference
16.5 Augmented Social Network and Identity Commons
16.6 The Laws of Identity
16.7 Internet Identity Workshop
16.8 Increasing support of user control
16.9 Rebooting the Web of Trust
16.10 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ID2020
16.11 Early state interest
16.12 MyData and Learning Machine
16.13 Verifiable Claims Working Group, Decentralized Identity Foundation, and Hyperledger Indy
16.14 Increasing state support for SSI
16.15 Ethereum identity
16.16 World Economic Forum reports
16.17 First production government demo of an SSI-supporting ledger
16.18 SSI Meetup
16.19 Official W3C standards
16.20 Only the beginning
References
17 Identity is money
17.1 Going back to the starting point
17.2 Identity as the source of relationships and value
17.3 The properties of money
17.4 The three functions of money
17.5 The tokenization of value with identity
References
Part 4 How SSI will change your business
18 Explaining the value of SSI to business
18.1 How might we best explain SSI to people and organizations?
18.1.1 Failed experiment 1: Leading with the technology
18.1.2 Failed experiment 2: Leading with the philosophy
18.1.3 Failed experiment 3: Explaining by demonstrating the tech
18.1.4 Failed experiment 4: Explaining the (world’s) problems
18.2 Learning from other domains
18.3 So how should we best explain the value of SSI?
18.4 The power of stories
18.5 Jackie’s SSI story
18.5.1 Part 1: The current physical world
18.5.2 Part 2: The SSI world—like the current physical world, but better
18.5.3 Part 3: Introducing the Sparkly Ball—or, what’s wrong with many current digital identity models
18.6 SSI Scorecard for apartment leasing
Reference
19 The Internet of Things opportunity
19.1 IoT: Connecting everything safely
19.2 How does SSI help IoT?
19.3 The business perspective for SSI and IoT
19.4 An SSI-based IoT architecture
19.5 Tragic story: Bob’s car hacked
19.6 The Austrian Power Grid
19.7 SSI Scorecard for IoT
References
20 Animal care and guardianship just became crystal clear
20.1 Enter Mei and Bailey
20.1.1 Bailey gets a self-sovereign identity
20.1.2 Guardianship transfer
20.1.3 Vacation for Mei and Bailey
20.1.4 A storm and separation
20.1.5 Lost and found at your fingertips
20.2 Digital identity unlocks opportunities for the well-being of animals and people
20.3 SSI for animals reaffirms their inherent worth
20.4 SSI Scorecard for pets and other animals
21 Open democracy, voting, and SSI
21.1 The problems with postal voting
21.2 The problems with e-voting
21.3 Estonia: A case study
21.4 The three pillars of voting
21.4.1 A state’s bill of needs
21.4.2 A voter’s bill of rights
21.5 The advantages of SSI
21.5.1 SSI Scorecard for voting
References
22 Healthcare supply chain powered by SSI
22.1 Emma’s story
22.2 Supply chain transparency and efficiency through SSI
22.3 Industry ecosystem efficiency powered by SSI
22.4 Future supply chain transformation across industries: The big picture
22.5 Eliminating waste
22.6 Authentication and quality
22.7 SSI Scorecard for the pharma supply chain
References
23 Canada: Enabling self-sovereign identity
23.1 The Canadian context
23.2 The Canadian approach and policy framework
23.3 The Pan-Canadian Trust Framework
23.4 The normative core
23.5 Mutual recognition
23.6 Digital ecosystem roles
23.7 Supporting infrastructure
23.8 Mapping the SSI stack to the PCTF model
23.9 Using the Verifiable Credentials Model
23.10 Enabling Self-Sovereign Identity
23.11 SSI Scorecard for the Pan-Canadian Trust Framework
24 From eIDAS to SSI in the European Union
24.1 PKI: The first regulated identity service facility in the EU
24.2 The EU legal framework
24.3 The EU identity federation
24.3.1 The legal concept of electronic identification (eID)
24.3.2 The scope of the eIDAS FIM Regulation and its relationship with national law
24.4 Summarizing the value of eIDAS for SSI adoption
24.5 Scenarios for the adoption of SSI in the EU identity metasystem
24.6 SSI Scorecard for the EBSI
References
appendix A Additional Livebook chapters
Chapter 25: SSI, payments, and financial services
Chapter 26: Solving organizational identity with vLEIs
Chapter 27: SSI and healthcare
Chapter 28: Enterprise identity and access management realized with SSI
Chapter 29: Insurance reinvented with SSI
Chapter 30: Enabling SSI in humanitarian contexts
Chapter 31: Guardianship and other forms of Delegated Authority with Self-Sovereign Identity
Chapter 32: Design principles for SSI
Chapter 33: SSI: Our dystopian nightmare
Chapter 34: Trust assurance in SSI ecosystems
Chapter 35: The evolution of gaming with SSI
appendix B Landmark essays on SSI
“The Domains of Identity”
“New Hope for Digital Identity”
“The Architecture of Identity Systems”
“Three Dimensions of Identity”
“Meta-Platforms and Cooperative Network-of-Network Effects”
“Verifiable Credentials Aren’t Credentials. They’re Containers.”
“The Seven Deadly Sins of Customer Relationships”
appendix C The path to self-sovereign identity
You can’t spell “identity” without an “I”
The evolution of identity
Phase one: Centralized identity (administrative control by a single authority or hierarchy)
Phase two: Federated identity (administrative control by multiple, federated authorities)
Phase three: User-centric identity (individual or administrative control across multiple authorities without requiring a federation)
Phase four: Self-sovereign identity (individual control across any number of authorities)
A definition of self-sovereign identity
Ten principles of self-sovereign identity
Conclusion
appendix D Identity in the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem
Identity on the blockchain
The keys to identity
On-chain identity solutions
ERC 725 v2: “Proxy Account”
The owner
The key-value store
The public on-chain identity
Off-chain identity solutions
ERC 1056: “Lightweight Identity”
The lightweight registry
Owner and delegates
Other ERCs
Conclusion
appendix E The principles of SSI
contributing authors
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In Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials, you’ll learn how SSI empowers us to receive digitally-signed credentials, store them in private wallets, and securely prove our online identities.
Summary
In a world of changing privacy regulations, identity theft, and online anonymity, identity is a precious and complex concept. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a set of technologies that move control of digital identity from third party “identity providers” directly to individuals, and it promises to be one of the most important trends for the coming decades. Now in Self-Sovereign Identity, privacy and personal data experts Drummond Reed and Alex Preukschat lay out a roadmap for a future of personal sovereignty powered by the Blockchain and cryptography. Cutting through the technical jargon with dozens of practical use cases from experts across all major industries, it presents a clear and compelling argument for why SSI is a paradigm shift, and shows how you can be ready to be prepared for it.
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About the technology
Trust on the internet is at an all-time low. Large corporations and institutions control our personal data because we’ve never had a simple, safe, strong way to prove who we are online. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) changes all that.
About the book
In Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials, you’ll learn how SSI empowers us to receive digitally-signed credentials, store them in private wallets, and securely prove our online identities. It combines a clear, jargon-free introduction to this blockchain-inspired paradigm shift with interesting essays written by its leading practitioners. Whether for property transfer, ebanking, frictionless travel, or personalized services, the SSI model for digital trust will reshape our collective future.
What's inside
The architecture of SSI software and services
The technical, legal, and governance concepts behind SSI
How SSI affects global business industry-by-industry
Emerging standards for SSI
About the reader
For technology and business readers. No prior SSI, cryptography, or blockchain experience required.
About the authors
Drummond Reed is the Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, a technology leader in SSI. Alex Preukschat is the co-founder of SSIMeetup.org and AlianzaBlockchain.org.
Table of Contents
PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO SSI
1 Why the internet is missing an identity layer—and why SSI can finally provide one
2 The basic building blocks of SSI
3 Example scenarios showing how SSI works
4 SSI Scorecard: Major features and benefits of SSI
PART 2: SSI TECHNOLOGY
5 SSI architecture: The big picture
6 Basic cryptography techniques for SSI
7 Verifiable credentials
8 Decentralized identifiers
9 Digital wallets and digital agents
10 Decentralized key management
11 SSI governance frameworks
PART 3: DECENTRALIZATION AS A MODEL FOR LIFE
12 How open source software helps you control your self-sovereign identity
13 Cypherpunks: The origin of decentralization
14 Decentralized identity for a peaceful society
15 Belief systems as drivers for technology choices in decentralization
16 The origins of the SSI community
17 Identity is money
PART 4: HOW SSI WILL CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS
18 Explaining the value of SSI to business
19 The Internet of Things opportunity
20 Animal care and guardianship just became crystal clear
21 Open democracy, voting, and SSI
22 Healthcare supply chain powered by SSI
23 Canada: Enabling self-sovereign identity
24 From eIDAS to SSI in the European Union