Re: [Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains

[Thomas Hardjono <[e-mail]>]

>>> From: Din [[e-mail]] on behalf of Brian E Carpenter [[e-mail]]
>>> ...
>>> 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.

Lots of people seem to want to provide digital-identity on a global scale immediately. from day 1.

Some folks even imagine there will be one huge global blockchain for the entire world :-)

But there is a lot to be learned from the history how IP routing emerged (e.g. days when
we only had IS-IS for local routing, not even OSPF).

Just like there is "autonomous systems" (AS) concept in routing and connected via backbone routing,
in the area of identity there needs to be the equivalent of an AS.

I've been calling it "communities" (data communities) for humans and personal data.

Its by interlinking ASes (communities) do we get scale and get identity services to be globally reachable.

So anytime I hear about a global blockchain to rule them all, I cringe :-)


-- thomas -- 





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From: Din [[e-mail]] on behalf of Brian E Carpenter [[e-mail]]
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2018 9:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains

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
>
>
>
>
>> 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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