Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
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Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#2That would be a step in the good direction. But the DID should be preferred as it will enable much more features.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#3> an average person having one username and password/authentication method that works across all services
It's a bug, not a feature. It's people throwing away their privacy for convenience. It's proverbial dancing piggies.
Problem with global-scale SSO is not corporations, that control shared identity. It's shared identity itself.
Distributed SSO is as good idea, as eco-friendly vegan huffing solvent.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#4It's odd this thread doesn't mention the sovereign self identity (SSI) efforts, DID Auth, etc. Folks who have been working in this area for years at this point and have some traction.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#5It's odd this thread doesn't mention the sovereign self identity (SSI) efforts, DID Auth, etc. Folks who have been working in this area for years at this point and have some traction.
The issue with placing your identity on the blockchain is if someone gets your keys they become you. That's not a useful construct.
Not your keys, not your life sounds awful.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#6It's odd this thread doesn't mention the sovereign self identity (SSI) efforts, DID Auth, etc. Folks who have been working in this area for years at this point and have some traction.
The issue with placing your identity on the blockchain is if someone gets your keys they become you. That's not a useful construct. Not your keys, not your life sounds awful .
Today when someone get a copy of your passport they become you. So I still prefer a private key.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#7Is this really what people want? Seems strange that a single set of keys or a passphrase would grant you access to not only your wallet - all your money - but also all your online services.
Am I missing something or is this just a fancy way of having a single password that gets you access to everything, and if compromised would be utterly devastating.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue with placing your identity on the blockchain is if someone gets your keys they become you. That's not a useful construct. Not your keys, not your life sounds awful .
Today when someone get a copy of your passport they become you. So I still prefer a private key.
They most certainly do not lol, not without some serious plastic surgery. If they wanted to avoid the plastic surgery route they'd have to update the details by proving them to a central authority who can verify the update.
Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue with placing your identity on the blockchain is if someone gets your keys they become you. That's not a useful construct. Not your keys, not your life sounds awful .
Today when someone get a copy of your passport they become you. So I still prefer a private key.
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Re: Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On
#10This is an extremely solved problem. Unless you have a dramatically interesting solution to the real hard problem, global account recovery, ordinary home users are effectively tethered to their email accounts, because that's how you reset a login. Since you're doing that already, "Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Apple" are perfectly cromulent solutions and likely to continue dominating.
The actual last thing in the world home users want is an authentication system where credential loss is literally irrevocable.
Meanwhile, the real market for Internet SSO is at companies, and one of the major reasons companies deploy SSO is to have policy control (particularly: onboard and offboarding) of who has access to what. A globally distributed authentication fabric is actually an anti-feature for those people.
The actual last thing in the world corporate users want is an authentication system their IT department doesn't control absolutely.
Part of what's happening with ideas like this, and the reason Internet identity has been such a tar pit for the last 20 years, is that there isn't one single service model for identity. Internet identity evangelists tend to overlook the fact that people have multiple identities on purpose.