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Mehdi Medjaoui (Co-founder and COO) & Elie Chevignard (CMO) are the two guys behind Oauth.io, a service which aims to provide a simple and standardized way for developers to implement Oath. Working in digital identity management, they have an interesting proposal on how to build personal identity management into the blockchain. This proposition would effectively take the power away from centralized single sign on services like Facebook and Google and make them decentralized.

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Oauth.io: https://oauth.io
- API Days: http://apidays.io
- OneName: https://onename.io
- NameID: https://nameid.org/
- Namecoin: http://namecoin.info/
- SQRL: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

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EB44 – Mehdi Medjaoui & Elie Chevignard of Oauth.io: Digital Identity in the Blockchain

Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the decentralized propaganda machine described last episode. 

Our guests today are Christian Lundkvist, senior technologist at ConsenSys and Chief Architect and Researcher of the uPort self sovereign identity platform, and Steve Wilson, has spent 22 years researching identity, 14 of which has been independent.  Steve currently leads the independent research business, Lockstep and is also working with Constellation Research where he studies blockchain technology.

Christian Lundkvist: https://twitter.com/ChrisLundkvist
Stephen Wilson: https://twitter.com/Steve_Lockstep

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State Change #41 Unpacking Digital Identity - Christian Lundkvist, Stephen Wilson

Timothy Ruff, CEO of Evernym, recently launched the Evernym blog with a really impressive piece examining the three models of digital identity. I talked to Timothy about the process of creating this piece, which will go down as an important bit of thought leadership in the rapidly evolving area of self-sovereign identity.

Decentralizing Identity with Evernym: The three models of digital identity

Your data is concentrated in the hands of a few large institutions. They are storing information about your browsing history, shopping habits, location, bank statements, medical history, and more. With the rising threat of data breaches, security threats, and loss of privacy - your information is increasingly at risk because you do not own your identity. We believe there is a better way. You, the identity owner - should own and control your own information. Welcome to the future of self-sovereign identity.

https://selfkey.org/

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