Decentralized Identity is seeing a proliferation of activity -- so much that even experts struggle to make sense of it all. Even the names of the emerging specs have gotten wacky (or, technically, WACI...)
This extremely practical talk will discuss key developments, emerging themes, and illustrate concrete examples of interesting decentralized identity use cases. To bring it all home, we will discuss when Verifiable Credentials are coming to a digital wallet near you!
One crucial component to SSI is end-users being able to interact with verifiers directly, without relying on a third-party provider or having to operate their own hosted infrastructure.
Extensions to OpenID Connect will get us there. End-users can now operate OpenID Providers that they control, use DIDs to prove control over the subject identifier, receive Verifiable Credentials and present Verifiable Presentations - all using the family of "OpenID Connect for SSI" specifications.
