Self-Sovereign Identity

Part 2 SSI technology

Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In part 1, we introduced the basic building blocks of SSI at a level comfortable for non-technologists. In part 2, we go behind the curtain to look much more deeply at these building blocks and see how they are assembled to accomplish the “magic” of SSI:

• Chapter 5 gives a big-picture overview of SSI architecture and some of the key design choices facing SSI architects.

• Chapter 6 explains why SSI is “cryptography all the way down” and introduces the innovations in cryptography that make SSI possible.

• Chapter 7 is a mini-textbook on the star of the SSI show: verifiable credentials (VCs). This is the only chapter with code ...