Digital ID

Note: This page is work-in-progress.

Digital ID refers to a collection of recent approaches to solving the trust problem between 2 entities ( 2 persons, computing devices or services).

Background

Trust Problem

Fundamentally, trust is brokered through a 3rd party, in one form or another. Young children often are introduced to each other by a chain of trust of 3rd party entities which is one or more adults present.

Identification

To drive a car, a driver's licence (A physical object provided by a trusted 3rd party bearing that vouches for the person present) is required to be present on the person.

E-Commerce

Ecommerce evolved to need trust established at multiple levels of protocol, from TLS certificates to Multi-factor authentication (more needed on MFA etc).
(more needed on history, developments, who are the primary sources and more.).

Centralization

As computer workgroups evolved to need scalability, so directory services and centralization of authentication mechanisms and access controls.

Virtualization

Businesses were put under new highs of pressure during the pandemic years and there is