Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub: Self-Sovereign ID
A session delivered as part of the project "Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub"
Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub was a Fund 8 Project Catalyst project exploring key blockchain concepts through the lens of philosophy. This session looked at self-sovereign ID and its philosophical implications.
You can see the slides used in the session, and some links for further reading.
We'd like to acknowledge the help of Maria Carmo and Allison Fromm, whose video on SSID we have used a section of in our slide presentation.
Slides
Further reading
Books
Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed, 2021
Articles
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Bridging Philosophy and Science Vents magazine, 2023
Digital Identity and the Blockchain: Universal Identity Management and the Concept of the “Self-Sovereign” Individual Andrej J. Zwitter, Oskar J. Gstrei and Evan Yap, 2020
What Are Soulbound Tokens? The Non-Transferrable NFT Explained Andrey Sergeenkov, 2023
On the topic of what can go wrong: Kim Cameron (Microsoft's Chief Identity Architect in the Identity and Security Division until his death in Nov 2021)’s identitiy blog - a post about the UK Goverment’s failures around identity and privacy during COVID
Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected - Alfred Moore, University of York, 2017
M. Barcz, The logical structure of intentional anonymity”, 2019 (downloadable doc)
Videos
How SSID works; zero-knowledge proof Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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