Self-Sovereign ID Tech

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https://www.computerworld.com/article/3512108/frustration-over-growing-privacy-and-security-failures-advancing-self-sovereign-identities.html
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot5-boston/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/self-sovereign-identity-primer.md

There is a growing movement among fintech companies, banks, healthcare
services, universities and others toward disintermediating the control
of online user identities in favor of supporting end-user controlled
decentralized digital wallets based on P2P blockchain. Self-sovereign
identity (SSI) is a term used to describe the digital movement that
recognizes an individual should own and control their identity without
intervening administrative authorities. The wallets would carry
encryption keys provided by third parties and could be used to
digitally sign transactions or provide access to verifying
information, everything from bank-issued credit lines to diplomas --
all of which are controlled by the user through public key
infrastructure (PKI). The blockchain ledger and PKI technology is
hidden behind user-friendly mobile applications. Currently, there are
more proof-of-concept projects than production systems involving a
small number of organizations. The pilots, being trialed in
government, financial services, insurance, healthcare, energy and
manufacturing, don't yet amount to an entire ecosystem, but they will
grow over the next few years, according to Gartner.