Stefan Thomas, CTO Identity
Stefan Thomas, CTO Agenda Goals Terminology What can decentralized networks contribute? – Better Identity Provider – Public attestation
Stefan Thomas, CTO Goals Authentication How can users securely authorize transactions? Attestation How can we enable users to prove their trustworthiness? What are we trying to solve?
Stefan Thomas, CTO Our role We’re not identity experts. We’re payments experts. What are our unique challenges around identity? How does the emergence of distributed networks affect identity? W3C Web Payments Community Group
Stefan Thomas, CTO Terminology EntityIdentity TheMark72 Identity Provider (IdP) Reference: ISO 29115; OpenID Connect 1.0 Core
Stefan Thomas, CTO Terminology Identity TheMark72 Claim name: “Mark Dinkel” Claim Provider Reference: draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-19; OpenID Connect 1.0 Core
Stefan Thomas, CTO Advantages Authentication mechanism agnostic Cryptographically secure Granular sharing of information and permissions Supports discovery The good news first OpenID Connect is pretty good!
Stefan Thomas, CTO Reliance on IdPs They are a target Difficult to switch Right to own your identity Why care?
Stefan Thomas, CTO Self-issued IdP OpenID Connect 1.0 Core - Section 7 Suggested use case: Mobile phone Open issues: backup, security The other option
Stefan Thomas, CTO Peer-assisted Key Derivation (PAKDF) Trustless login using blind signatures “pw” blinding unblinding blind signature Reference: justmoon.github.io/pakdf
Stefan Thomas, CTO Peer-assisted Key Derivation (PAKDF) Full benefits of identity provider (multi-factor authentication, rate-limiting, fingerprinting) If using multiple peers provides strong protections against bad IdPs Trustless login using blind signatures “pw”
Stefan Thomas, CTO Switching providers Global distributed namespace ~alice acmebank.com rNb721TdNHN37yoURrMYDiQ ~alice
Stefan Thomas, CTO Switching providers Global distributed namespace ~alice foobank.com rNb721TdNHN37yoURrMYDiQ ~alice
Stefan Thomas, CTO Service Discovery How to pay alice? ~alice "links": [{ "rel": " "href": " }] Reference: RFC 7033 WebFinger
Stefan Thomas, CTO Service Discovery GET /api/ripple/pay?uri=alice%3Ffoobank.com… [{ “uri": “currency”: “CAD” }, { “uri": “ripple:rNb721TdNHN37yoURrMYDiQF?dt=1234”, “currency”: “BTC” }, …]
Stefan Thomas, CTO Reputation Identity Claim name: “Mark Dinkel” Claim Provider Reference: draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-19; OpenID Connect 1.0 Core
Stefan Thomas, CTO Reputation Identity Claim { reviewer: score: 9.5, comment: “Great guy!” } Claim Provider
Stefan Thomas, CTO Reputation Identity ClaimScore Provider 804 low risk
Stefan Thomas, CTO