Christopher Allen
Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer— Co-author TLS Security Standard—Collaborative Tools & Patterns
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Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.13
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier for
verifiable, decentralized digital identity. These new identifiers
are designed to enable the controller of a DID to prove control over
it and to be implemented independently of any...
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Christopher Allen
The W3C-CCG’s (Credentials Community Group) last task before turning the DID (Decentralized Identifier) spec over to a WG is to publish a Final Report. We are in a 7 day period for community members to assert any substantial objections to publishing this
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Proposed W3C Charter: Decentralized Identifier Working Group (until 2019-08-31) from xueyuan on 2019-08-01 ([email protected] from August 2019)
Christopher Allen
Companies! Support our efforts to create a DID (Decentralized IDentifier) standard! The W3C is requesting public comments on our proposal to form an official Working Group to be authorized to continue efforts to make it an international standard
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A Philosophy of Blockchain: What Would Satoshi Nakamoto Think of Proof of Stake?
We’ve been somewhat surprised by how many people ask us why we don’t use proof of stake instead. There are a few reasons, but most…
w3c-ccg/didm-btcr
WORK ITEM: BTCR DID Method Spec. Contribute to w3c-ccg/didm-btcr development by creating an account on GitHub.
Do you want to be able to "pull the plug" on your online life? If so, you need to think about your "self-sovereign identity"
As documentaries like Netflix’s The Great Hack are showing us, we are living in a digital society which all-too-easily trades our personal data - our behaviour with our networked machines - with anyone powerful enough to buy that information....
Welcome to the 2019 BTCR Hackathon
BTCR Hackathon 2019
Christopher Allen
Our virtual hackathon to continue development of decentralized identifiers on bitcoin (aka the BTCR DID Method) runs Monday through Friday this week starting tomorrow at 10am PT. Join @kimdhamilton and I to help this open source DID project to catch up!
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Bitcoin Coffee
Jedinečná bitcoinová kavárna v Praze.
Christopher Allen
Amused to find that Bitcoin Coffee bitcoincoffee.cz is a block away from the venue for our next #RebootingWebOfTrust in Prague next month. Hopefully a good omen for getting a more functional BTCR DID method & wallet working during the event!
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emerging-blockchain-idms-draft-kim_duffy
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^ Required Field *Type: E - Editorial,
G - General T - Technical,Comment Template for
NIST White Paper Public Draft
A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems,Please submit responses...
Conviction Voting: A Novel Continuous Decision Making Alternative to Governance
A Commons Stack Component Explainer
Christopher Allen
“attacker would need to continually expend funds to bend the system towards their desired outcomes, rather than purchasing the votes once to obtain their desired outcomes indefinitely…raises the costs of influencing the system over long periods of time”
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Introducing the Commons Stack: Scalable Infrastructure for Community Collaboration
Solving the World’s Biggest Problems with Cyber-Physical Commons Management
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Christopher Allen
This group thinking along similar lines as I have been the last few years: “How do we ensure we make the right decisions as a collective? How do we allocate funds fairly? How do we avoid plutocracy in these new economic systems?” @jeffemmett
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Law of [Blockchain] Commons
5-part series analyzing (1) commons tragedies; (2) tech & law stacks; (3) law-as-commons; (4) law commons methodologies; (5) future…
Popular Samsung, LG Android Phones Open to ‘Spearphone’ Eavesdropping
A Spearphone attacker can use the accelerometer in LG and Samsung phones to remotely eavesdrop on any audio that's played on speakerphone, including calls, music and voice assistant responses.
Christopher Allen
Spearphone: New Android attack using the phone’s on-board accelerometers (motion sensors) to eavesdrop on the callers. We need architectures where all I/O requires individual permissions like Apple has recently been adding to iOS.
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Research Debt
Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...
The Technium: Scenius, or Communal Genius
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Christopher Allen
@unchainedcap I also like this 1 of 7 multilock at a number of Bay Area ranches: kk.org/streetuse/one-… pic.twitter.com/E0iTcoqvqL
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Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap — joyofsource.com
Christopher Allen
I’ve been diving beyond my comfort level into the rabbit hole of "Reduced Binary Seed" bootstrap of Unix. Why? There is far too much code to security audit, so any reduction of audit surface makes it easier.
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Rhythm and Melody: How Hubs and Agents Rock Together
Those who study decentralized or self-sovereign identity technologies quickly run into two important mental models. The Decentralized Identity Foundation promotes the notion of hubs—services that help an identity owner manage...
Words of Estimative Probability — Central Intelligence Agency
Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: Collected Essays - Words of Estimative Probability
The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong
This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain’s GCHQ about requiring encrypted communications platforms to be designed to secretly add an extra participant — the government — to a conversation. In the...
Christopher Allen
“The GCHQ proposal…creates an international surveillance free-for-all where smart criminals can decide to opt-out of government eyes while leaving the law-abiding without security.”
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