The “decentralized identity” solution we’ve announced (preview) is one of the most fascinating & exciting things I’ve seen in a long time coming from Microsoft.
Imagine being able to:
- identify yourself & verify who you are to multiple organizations & services
- align your benefits, subscriptions, & memberships to your identity across different organizations
- verify your identity to an organization using your phone, an authenticator app, and your camera + a QR code from the services
- create your own identity store & participate in decentralized identity verification, independent from any other organization
Decentralized identity is the restructuring of the currently centralized physical and digital identity ecosystem into a decentralized and democratized architecture.
Leveraging Open Standards, Microsoft’s approach to decentralized identity includes blockchain-connected decentralized system groups that include:
- Identity sources: Identity hubs, resolvers & attestation catalogs
- Identity authenticators: Identity identifiers & authentications
User agents – usually authenticator apps such as Microsoft Authenticator or other agent providers such as Google Authenticator, etc. – provide both enrollment as well as authentication approvals using QR codes.
For more information.
- Decentralized Identity, Blockchain, and Privacy
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access-management/decentralized-identity-blockchain
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