Posts with keyword: sovereign-source

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On Sovereignty

Thu Oct 27 12:02:00 2016

Sovereignty is much more than control. Sovereignty is about relationships and balance of power.
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When People Can Share Verifiable Attributes, Everything Changes

Thu Oct 20 13:36:00 2016

Verifiable, owner-provided attributes are the engine that will drive wide-spread adoption of self-sovereign identity systems. This article explains how this models the way credentials work in the physical world and describes benefits of owner-provided attributes.
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Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers

Mon Sep 19 16:45:00 2016

This post justifies the claim that an identity system based on a permissioned distributed ledger is legitimately self-sovereign. The post also examines the claims to legitimacy that social login and distributed ledger identity systems make.
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