Digital Death: Legal Frameworks
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I’m just trying to understand how this works.
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50 articles tagged Identity.
The AI-Enhanced Afterlife: No Thanks
I like this one. It sits right at the intersection of AI, identity, law, and just enough existential dread to make people double-check their password manager.
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The Digital Dead: Existence Beyond Death Online
I started thinking about this post a while back when I saw a former colleague’s Medium profile still listed as following mine. He died in the early days of covid. A quick check showed that his LinkedIn profile seems to have disappeared — not sure how that works. It was still there a few years ago.
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Elliptic Curve Groups: The Mathematical Engine Behind Modern Digital Identity
If you’ve ever read a specification like WebAuthn, DID Core, SD-JWT VC, BBS Signatures, OID4VCI, or OID4VP, you’ve probably encountered references to P-256, secp256k1, Ed25519, or BLS12–381.
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Data Minimization: Why Does the Coffee Shop Need to Know My Blood Type?
Modern identity systems have a bit of a hoarding problem.
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Decentralized Identifiers: Because Apparently We Needed to Rethink the Name Field
For most of the history of digital identity, we’ve had a remarkably simple solution to the question, “Who are you?”
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OAuth2 has always had a fundamental problem: a bearer token is a bearer token. After all, it’s a bearer token.
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Bilinear Pairings: Modern Privacy-Preserving Cryptography
If you’ve spent any time reading about modern cryptography — especially BBS Signatures, attribute-based credentials, or identity-based encryption — you’ve probably encountered the phrase bilinear pairing.
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Selective Disclosure: Finally, an Identity System That Knows When to Stop Talking
For decades, digital identity has operated on a remarkably inefficient principle, “If someone asks for one piece of information, give them everything.”
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