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Session #6 - Identity, Security and Privacy

Technical merits of an identity scheme in the OWP

Gregory Estrade (@Torlus) - Lyra Network

The Web is by nature a decentralized platform, but...

At browser level: Mozilla Persona.
Standards: WebID, OpenID...
Platforms (related to payments, or not): Diaspora et al. Many things you've already heard of, before or during this workshop.

There's a lot of innovation, on the hardware side, but not only.

Frontiers between retail and e-commerce processing shrink.

Your Identity is defined by what other people or organizations know about you.
Identity is the matter of being, Privacy is about choosing what you want to disclose or not.
Identity and Privacy are a matter of trust which is subjective.

Let him/her create its web-of-trust. The key point here is Education. Encourage the user to add an Internet-savvy person in this group. Example: Facebook's Trusted Contacts.
Let him choose what he/she wants to disclose to a given entity or service provider.

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme.
As the user (should) know that he/she will share sensitive data, it's more likely that he/she will perform properly the first Identity checks.
Use the IoT for secret sharing. Objects, wearable devices become part of your Identity (as they are IRL).
Use a quorum so that UX is adapted to the situation.