Digital Credentials.
Feb. 20th, 2007 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupWhen I first started talking about a replacement for the Web with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sps, one of the features that we agreed was essential was an anonymous cryptographic proof of credentials. So that, for example, one could vote in a Texas primary using an anonymous proxy, but nevertheless prove that one had the right to vote there.
It now seems that Stefan Brands has started a company called Credentica to provide software for creating, verifying and otherwise working with such Digital Credentials. I Just read an overview, and its a good place to start reading about it, if you're interested.
Oh, I should also mention that there is already an open source implementation.
sps, one of the features that we agreed was essential was an anonymous cryptographic proof of credentials. So that, for example, one could vote in a Texas primary using an anonymous proxy, but nevertheless prove that one had the right to vote there.It now seems that Stefan Brands has started a company called Credentica to provide software for creating, verifying and otherwise working with such Digital Credentials. I Just read an overview, and its a good place to start reading about it, if you're interested.
Oh, I should also mention that there is already an open source implementation.
