News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs. Parent comment

Re:Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs by rschulman on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:45AM (#17705992)
The DID system doesn't use any central registrars. Connecting a key with an entity consists of the entity represented by the DID publishing the key in their DID document. That document is then published on some ledger (can be blockchain but could also be, e.g., IPFS) so that others can discover it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs by rapnie on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:16AM (#17706250)
Most of the reference I found have some relation to blockchain in it. Do you know of existing work of DID + IPFS?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs by diggan on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:27AM (#17706339)
There is bunch of discussions happening currently about how to get Identity right and how applications using IPFS can use DID for their identity management.

Some links:

- https://github.com/ipfs/dynamic-data-and-capabilities/issues...

- https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-star/issues/6

- https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-star/issues/7

Also, browse around in the repositories and their open issues.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs by satanik on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:41AM (#17724056)
I would like to also add https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-star/pull/15 to the list of links.

If anyone is really into decentralized identities and authentication, please give it a read. Feedback would be appreciated!

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs by rapnie on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:52AM (#17706554)
Thx. These are great.
[ Parent | on HN ]