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What is “the identity problem"?

How does a website get a name? How does a website get a certificate? How does a browser know who to trust to sign certificates? How does a human know the name of a website? How does a human acquire a unique name and prove they own that name?

Surprisingly, there are issues with all these aspects as deployed today. As with most security problems, some people propose “#blockchain” as being “the solution”.

This #InfoQ talk by Radia Perlman describes what aspects of identity and authentication blockchain might address, and compares a “blockchain“ approach with what is deployed today: https://bit.ly/3N5bu3M