Smarter Signatures: Experiments in Verifications
By Christopher Allen & Shannon Appelcline ABSTRACT Technologies like the Web of Trust and PKI lay the foundation for identity on the internet: they ma...
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The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity
Today I head out to a month-long series of events associated with identity: I’m starting with the 22st (!) Internet Identity Workshop next week; then I’m sp...
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A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons
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A Spectrum of Consent
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