This repository contains documents related to the "Rebooting the Web-of-Trust" series of events in the fall of 2015 and early 2016.
The first DesignShop event, to be held in the Bay Area on November 3rd & 4th 2015, is a facilitated, invite-only event focused on creating the next generation of decentralized web-of-trust based identity systems. The goal of this initial DesignShop is to generate 5 technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that will have the greatest impact on the future.
We are using Gitter for chat during this event:
In advance of the November DesignShop, all participants were requested to post in the Topics and Advanced Readings folder a 1 or 2 page topics paper to be shared with other attendees on either:
- A specific problem that you'd like to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (pgp or ca-based pki) can't address the problem?
- A specific solution related to the web-of-trust that you'd like others to use or contribute to?
The topic papers submitted were:
- Advanced Web-of-Trust Concepts
- Attempts at common terminology for digital identity systems
- Authorities vs. Peers: Pain Points in Security
- Avoiding Confused Deputy Attack Using Capabilities
- Binding Identity in a Decentralized System
- Blockchain-based Trust for Software Components
- Blockchain Tech Opportunities in the Web-of-Trust
- Building a Web of Trust for E-commerce
- Cool hack with XDI graphs, blockstore, link contracts, and cryptographic identifiers
- Dealing with key loss in digital identity systems
- Decentralized Authentication with Blockchain Auth
- Decentralized Cooperation Needs Decentralized Reputation
- Different Models for Trust
- Distributed multi-ledger model for financial industry
- Distributed Receptor-Based Computing
- Distributed Trust Systems and the Kenyesian Beauty Contest
- First Encounters with PGP
- Hierarchical Deterministic Keys: BIP32 & Beyond
- Identity, Guidance and Situational Awareness
- Identity, Property and Simulation
- Key revocation of lost and stolen keys
- Key Transparency for End Users
- Knowing When Your Digital Identity Has Been Compromised
- Lightning Network and Web of Trust
- Linked Local Names
- Multiplexed: a 'slightly radical' framing of identity
- Modern PKI: Identity Assertions Forming Trust Networks
- PGP Paradigm
- PKI Tools in EVM-based blockchains
- Progressive Trust
- Real life application of WoT: Refugee Use Case
- Reputation and the Real World
- Schnorr Signatures: An Overview
- Secret Handshake: Key Exchange as a Capability System
- Secure Naming on the Blockchain
- Selective Disclosure of Identity with Hierarchical Deterministic Keys and JSON Web Tokens
- Tensions related to identity and community regulation
- The Naming of Things
- Thin Clients
- Trust Exchange: An Architecture for a Permanent Open Trust Network
- Web of Trust with Blockchain IDs
- White Papers, Specifications & Proofs of Concept
- XDI Link Contracts: An Overview
- RLPx: Network for Decentralized Applications