Traditional Digital identity schemes, such as the X509 certificate approach and similar, has always carried substantial overhead and cost to reach non-repudiation. With the explosion of distributed ledgers in areas such as digital currencies and the current reluctance by consumers on using IOT solutions due to privacy and security issues there is a need for an alternative. The Sovrin foundation has taken this and have made an “Self-Sovereign” Identity solution. Based on open-source distributed ledger technology this approach has a lot of potential, in particular in the theoretical ability to self manage devices and their trust relationships. The illustration here shows how this works in the real world.
Tag: IOT
The chaos that is IOT standards (or lack thereof)
Yet another attempt to bridge the disparate world that is IOT standards, this time the EdgeX Foundry from the Linux foundation. Again trying to create unity in a over-fragmented segment of technology. Danny Bradbury has a nice summing up on the chaos on The register, trying to create an overview of all the various standards and the various attempts and joining them together. This will easily be the first hurdle IOT needs to overcome, only when there is a good set of cross compabilities will mass consumer adaptation realty happen.