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Utilizing Blockchain Technology to Provide an Accessible, Privacy-Centric System for Positively Proving Identity
Tuesday, August 20, 2024: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
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As methodologies towards non-repudiation improve, so too must efforts to apply such methodologies to sectors that stand to benefit the most. At its core, personal Identity is the very foundation of all we do - finance, ownership, civic participation; but identity issuance has greatly lagged behind techniques to attack identity, as evidenced by society’s continuing reliance on easily forged identity numbers to prove identity. Until identity issuance becomes cryptographically secure, such identity cannot be positively used for non-repudiation without a high risk of fraud.
Such unreliability of data availability and lack of absolute non-repudiation can be solved by incorporating a distributed ledger amongst issuing authorities. Such a ledger would easily allow the publishing of cryptographic public keys corresponding to issued private keys to individuals at those issuing authorities. This method of effectively utilizing a blockchain as a distributed certificate distribution mechanism would provide a high degree of data availability, while the blockchain itself would provide a high degree of data accuracy, making efforts to fraudulently utilize an individual’s identity considerably more difficult than currently.
This system, whereby issuing authorities would run a decentralized ledger of issued public keys and certificates, could allow for a sort of government-backed OAuth, where the government could technically and cryptographically guarantee the identity of a user between third parties without intervention or additional work on behalf of the government. This could allow for many advancements, such as digital online voting, login-less interaction with sensitive systems (and no need for such weaknesses as passwords), proof of ownership for real estate, and much more.
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