Finance

Physics

Business

Authentication (law)

Public key certificate

Public-key cryptography

Credential

Identity (music)

Digital identity

Computer network

Access control

Password

Internet privacy

Encryption

Identifier

Acoustics

Set (abstract data type)

Programming language

Computer science

Verifiable secret sharing

Computer security

Ledger

Authentication with username and password is becoming an inconvenient process for the user. End users typically have little control over their personal privacy, and data breaches effecting millions of users have already happened several times. We have implemented a proof of concept decentralized OpenID Connect Provider by marrying it with Self-Sovereign Identity, which gives users the freedom to choose from a very large pool of identity providers instead of just a select few corporations, thus enabling the democratization of the highly centralized digital identity landscape. Furthermore, we propose a verifiable credential powered decentralized Public Key Infrastructure using distributed ledger technologies, which creates a straightforward and verifiable way for retrieving digital certificates.

Distributed-Ledger-based Authentication with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials