W3C launches Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as a web standard

guest · Jul 20, 2022

DID has been designed to give users and organizations greater security and privacy
July 20, 2022

Decentralized Identifiers (DID) is now an official web standard, according to a news release from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

DIDs are cryptographic digital identifiers not tied to any central authority. They provide individuals and organizations with greater security and privacy, along with more control over their online information.

Instead of having your identity tied to an email address or a social media account controlled by a big tech company, you can have a DID that can be stored and transferred across different types of digital infrastructure, including blockchains.
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DIDs can represent individuals, organizations, online communities, governments, IoT devices, or anything else that needs an online identity.
Better identity security

“I would summarize the overall impact of DIDs on cybersecurity as making digital signing and encryption much more widely available than today’s conventional X.509-based public key infrastructure (PKI),” Drummond Reed, director of trust services at Avast and co-editor of the DID specification, told The Daily Swig.
“This is because generating and using one or more public/private key pairs that can be verified as belonging to you will no longer require using a certificate authority (CA).”
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Resolving conflicts
The DID Core specification had been debated for more than a year and was pushed to recommendation status in June, despite objections from Mozilla and Google.

“The key objections from Google and Mozilla centered mostly on their desire to see at least a few DID methods standardized because they see the current 120+ registered DID methods as a barrier to interoperability,” Reed said.
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W3C: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation

A new tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing
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