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Re: [Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 09 April 2018 01:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains
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On 09/04/2018 10:28, Arjuna Sathiaseelan wrote:
>>
>> 2/ I though many people in the security community were moving away from
>> proving identity, towards systems that prove entitlement (i.e. credentials
>> are on a need-to-know basis, so if you were say 19, you don't need to say
>> yur age or show id,
>> but you can't buy a drink in cambridge MA, but you can in cambridge, UK :)
>>
> 
> digital id plays a major role for all the KYC/AML - massive market.. + for
> employment etc..

Right, but *international* digital ID is a hopeless mess. Just try dealing
with a USA bank's KYC department when living in New Zealand with a UK
passport. Nothing works.

That isn't a marginal case. Tens or hundreds of millions of people
would need cross-border digital ID these days. Sales argument: would
help to defeat money laundering.

   Brian
 
> like the idea of proving entitlement - works nicely with crypto
> charities/aid delivery..
> 
> Regards
> 
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>> bootstrapping something from a BC to provide the credentials is also
>> problematic, in that
>> BC needs a PKI to know whether nodes are not sybils, spoofs, etc, so we
>> have a circular dependance, no?
>>
>> maybe i missed an important step, if so, sorry!
>>
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I thought to share this WSJ article with the DIN group. Relevant in the
>>> light of recent interest in using BC for identity.
>>>
>>> Advance apologies if it offends some people :-)
>>>
>>> https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/04/03/digital-identity-
>> is-broken-heres-a-way-to-fix-it/
>>>
>>>
>>> Below is a link to a PDF version.
>>>
>>> http://hardjono.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/WSJ_
>> Digital_Identity_is_Broken.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> -- thomas --
>>>
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