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Decentralized identity, also known as Self-Sovereign Identity is a digital identity that is fully under the control of the identity subject, independent from any centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority. The technical basis is provided by strong cryptography and distributed ledger technology, also referred to as blockchain technology.

Decentralized identity, also known as Self-Sovereign Identity is a digital identity that is fully under the control of the identity subject, independent from any centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority. The technical basis is provided by strong cryptography and distributed ledger technology, also referred to as blockchain technology.

Key concepts for decentralized identity such as Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Claims, Privacy & Security Requirements for Storage & Compute are standardized by the following bodies:

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Key differences between Hyperledger Aries and Hyperledger Indy?

Both Hyperledger Aries and Hyperledger Indy are platforms for building distributed ledger applications for identities. What are the main differences between them? When to choose one over the other to implement a blockchain solution?
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How do you confirm a website is decentralized?

If you look at DApps like Sushiswap, Pancakeswap, Curve, AAVE etc, how do you actually confirm that the web interface is hosted on Web3.0, ie a decentralized host server? The Dapp looks indistinguishable from a regular website hosted on a single…
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Hyperledger Indy basic concepts

I am reading the Indy walkthrough: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/blob/master/docs/getting-started/indy-walkthrough.md and I am trying to figure out what is the Indy nodes pool? And conceptually what is a pool? And when we talk about…
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Does Decentralized Identifiers cover Decentralized PKI

I am learning about Decentralized Identifiers(DIDs). The DIDs specifaction says that: This architecture not only eliminates dependence on centralized registries for identifiers, but also on centralized certificate authorities for key…
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Advantages of Decentralized ID (DID) over federated identity

The Decentralized ID (DID) standard is currently being developed by the W3C (see here). What are the advantages and disadvantages of this new standard compared to existing federated identity authentication mechanisms such as OpenID and SAML? Why…
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How does correlation prevention work in the self-sovereign identity model

The self-sovereign identity model is based on this triangle of trust: The issuer issues verifiable credentials (VC) to the holder. Then the holder can present those VC to the verifier. Because the verifier trusts the issuer, it will grant the…
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Decentralized identity vs Decentralized identifiers

I am a newbie to decentralized identity concept. While I am reading on that, I notice two similar terminologies; Decentralized identity and Decentralized identifiers I am wondering whether Decentralized identity and Decentralized identifiers are two…
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Custom MSP for Hyperledger Fabric

I'm trying to use DIDs/VCs from hyperledger Indy with Hyperledger Fabric. Simply I want to replace Fabric's certificate based identity/MSP with DIDs/VCs. However, as far as I understand this is not direct. The existing code based have lots of…
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Decentralized identifiers (DIDs)

I started studying DID a few days ago but I have a doubt. A transaction is always associated with the public key of a DID right? Each transaction is written in the blockchain and is immutable. Suppose someone steals my private key and I want to…
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Error when starting aca-py agent with the help of seed parameter

I am trying to start the aca-py agent with the command :- aca-py start --wallet-name user3 --wallet-key user3 --wallet-type indy --genesis-file //docker_pool_transactions_genesis --ledger-pool-name local_pool…
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What is the tails-server-base-url? and how should it be configured?

I have installed the indy-sdk in my system and started the ledger network (It is running). After that I setup the aries-cloudagent and ran the agent (as a steward) using the aca-py command. Now, with the help of this agent, I have published the…
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Hyperledger Indy - error on startup - Invalid library state: MerkleTree contains invalid item

I am attempting to set up a 4 node Indy network but I'm getting an "Invalid library state" error when I try to connect. This is what I've tried: # MACHINE 1: sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CE7709D068DB5E88 bash -c…
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OIDC cloud agent vs SIOP edge agent

We are starting a POC (proof of concept) with Decentralized Identity (DID) and a got a document talking about the authentication method to use: OIDC cloud agent vs SIOP edge agent. I don't understand what is that two stuff? and also what are the…
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How Identity is decentralize in Hyperledger Indy?

I want to ask a basic question. I am following story of Alice from Indy offical docs. When Faber College issue identity to Alice then faber college and Alice both know the identity of Alice. It means Faber College maintaning local database of…
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Where can I learn more about decentralized identity?

Decentralized Identity is an new form of identity technology and emerging standards based on decentralized/distributed systems - where can you learn more?
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