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Re:Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft) by naravara on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:35PM (#27596142)
> DIDs are fundamentally antithetical to privacy and will only enable a deeper and more obscure level of tracking to all applications that use them. They were originally inspired for mapping public blockchain use-cases, but IMO personal identity and related keys should _never_ be put on a public chain, who thinks this could ever be a good idea or architecture?

Functionally, how different would this be from the status quo? Between the FAANGs basically already having near-universal identifiers for all of us and everyone's information being leaked in a variety of breaches to where it's essentially public knowledge to any black hats or state actors I'm not sure how down the downsides are?

Re:Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft) by infominer on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:00PM (#27644240)
DIDs make use of public key encryption, which does not require storing private data on a public chain to be useful. All that's needed is a public key directory for public entities, everything else can be verified based on said pubkey of those entities who issue credentials

a new identifier (pubkey) can be created for each organization you engage with

OPs argument seems based on imagination has nothing to do with how DIDs are meant to work