comakery / rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016

Rebooting the Web-of-Trust

This repository contains documents related to the "Rebooting the Web-of-Trust" series of events in the fall of 2016.

DesignShop October 19th - 21st, 2016

The third DesignShop event, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 19th, 20th, & the 21st 2016, is a facilitated, invite-only event focused on creating the next generation of decentralized web-of-trust based identity systems. The goal of this initial DesignShop is to generate 5 technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that will have the greatest impact on the future.

Topics & Advance Readings

In advance of the October DesignShop, all participants were requested to post in the Topics and Advanced Readings folder a 1 or 2 page topics paper to be shared with other attendees on either:

• A specific problem that you'd like to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (pgp or ca-based pki) can't address the problem?
• A specific solution related to the web-of-trust that you'd like others to use or contribute to?

The topic papers submitted were:

• Identity as Linked Data on Immutable Ledgers by Tim Daubenschuetz @timdaub <[email protected], [email protected]> and Trent McConaghy @trentmc0 <[email protected], [email protected]>
• EU General Data Protection Regulation & Self-Sovereign Identifier(s) by David Robert <[email protected]>
• Identity Forking and Federated Reputation by Christopher Malon <[email protected]>
• OpenTimestamps: Scalable, Trustless, Distributed Timestamping with Bitcoin by Peter Todd
• Distributed Identity, Distributed Self by Natalie Smolenski <[email protected]>
• Blockchain Extensions for Linked Data Signatures by the Signature Super Friends
• Fit for Purpose Blockchains by Digital Bazaar