I am often asked whether SSI, verifiable credentials or identity wallets are a good fit for a particular use case, and my answer is usually "it depends on which benefits of this technology are relevant in this situation". Here's a handy cheat sheet 🧵.

The EU just passed a provisional agreement for EIDAS v2, and despite seemingly good intentions, it has serious privacy problems and mandates changes that break web security. My article on "The Dangers of eIDAS" discusses some of these problems. [1/13] blockchaincommons.com/articles/eidas/

Should I apply? 🤣 -> OpenAI hiring a Senior Software Engineer- Identity Platform - $200 - $370K boards.greenhouse.io/openai/jobs/48…

I just shipped a new package to PyPI from GitHub Actions without using a password OR token, for the first time! I'm using the Trusted Publishers mechanism PyPI added last year, which is based on OpenID Connect (implementation detail) Here are my notes: til.simonwillison.net/pypi/pypi-rele…

I went to sign up for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) newsletter. But I am required to agree "my personal data can be used to receive advertising ...". That's a hard no. If a new global identity foundation thinks it's a good idea to sell my data, then I wonder about its culture and its mission.

I'm still bullish on passkeys, but there's a lot of hard truths being told here that need to be addressed before passwords can be replaced. fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-2…

Our amazing #ReactMiamiConf workshop “How I Bought Booze with JSON Web Tokens” with Angie Jones and Rizèl Scarlett 🇦🇬🇬🇾 was a blast. Participants leveled up their VC issuing skills and grabbed exclusive TBD merch. Stay tuned for our next live workshop: tbd.website/blog

Will Abramson led a discussion on why people should join W3C CCG, how people can improve and contribute to it, and what work items people can propose and work on. You can watch the recording of the presentation and discussion here (start at 4min-50sec mark):

Any stand alone DIDComm applications?

Has anyone done a DIDComm based Wordpress login module? Failing that, and OAuth implementation with DIDs and/or VCs?

Danube Tech, cheqd.io 🆔, NETIS Group, & Soverio have been selected for the 2nd cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox! We're developing a ledger-agnostic approach for managing trust registries & verifiable accreditations on #DLT, enabling a Qualified Electronic Ledger under #eIDAS2!

ISO 18013 #verifiablecredentials bring potential #clicktopresent in-app. Digital trade licences, Medicare credentials, working-with-children checks, prof. memberships etc should be verifiably presentable online to truly transform digital workflows. #DigitalID

Our DIDComm research will appear in CCS’24! Kudos to co authors Christian and Fabio, who have shared their knowledge with me, and thanks to Atala and @inputoutputhk for supporting this research!

Anyone know atproto implementation other than bluesky?

The inaugural LF Decentralized Trust Summit is set for this week (Oct 23–24) at the historic San Francisco Mint. Our members-only event features experts across code projects and offer interactive discussions on identity, digital assets, privacy, interoperability & more! 👇Agenda

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We are all ready to begin IIWXXXIX and look forward to welcoming the largest number of participants to the circle ever! See you tomorrow Morning at 8 for check in, coffee, donuts, bagels & more ... Opening Circle at 9 sharp! #IIW #InternetIdentityWorkshop #openspacetech

So far so good. People are building nifty stuff on top of the firehose of events. One person in particular took a 1M post window of that firehose and uploaded it to Hugging Face as an ML training dataset; which seems like an insignificant thing... and boy it blew up. 3/N

Anyone know about DIDs? is this a fair summary? If so, it bears a resemblance to Ricardian contracts. To me at least... Understanding DIDComm If you are reading this, you probably know already what Decentralized Identifiers (DID) are: they are “identifiers” or addresses which