Comment on How could online identity work without permanent usernames or unrecoverable accounts?
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If I’m reading you correctly, this is what Decentralized ID (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier) aims to resolve, not just for social accounts. I wrote the initial DID implementation for my previous employer, but FIs, especially credit unions (our primary customers) were still a ways off from implementing it.
My familiarity with ATProto (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Protocol) is extremely shallow, but as I understand it, ATProto can use DID. Hopefully someone else will come along and provide more info or correct my error.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
Atproto accepts 2 forms of did did:web (their own special snowflake identity system with trusted servers managing it so its not trustless) and did:pgp which is just pgp keys. Any identity system requires a source of truth in a cryptographic system that’s the private key generated from a seed phrase (essentially same as a password) the source of truth is ur memory. The other source of proof is biometrics. Any system must come down to one of those 2 things.