And that can be done at a warehouse, sales point or even by consumers with their own personal devices.ĭecentralized Identity (DID) for Organizations : The main application is the “DID for organizations in global trade” use case. For instance, phytosanitary certificates, guarantee certificates, compliance certificates issued by third party auditors, … All these certificates, represented as interoperable Verifiable Credentials, can be scanned and verified by any Zebra scanner, powered by our SDK. Trade Certificates : Verifiable claims anchored to decentralized identities can be used to represent digitally different kinds of certificates associated with trade items. You can find more information on our previous joint whitepaper with IOTA on health passports. For instance, health credentials could be verified by a restaurant owner using a Zebra device powered by our SDK without interacting with a government service endpoint. In fact, self-sovereign identities allow individuals to manage and present their identities (securely stored on their devices) without the intervention of a central authority or issuer. Personal Information Management : The main application is self-sovereign identities as a privacy improvement. Some inspiration on the kind of applications that can be built are: The IOTA Tangle is well-suited as it provides guarantees of data integrity and immutability and, therefore, trust between participating parties, but without incurring any fees. In the context of Verifiable Credentials, the Tangle acts as the Verifiable Data Registry. The IOTA Identity Framework handles all the interactions with the IOTA Tangle where the DID documents are published and anchored to. VCs are like digital passports, or unique stamps which serve to attest to specific information about an entity associated with a specific DID. VCs may be created by trusted entities, such as government agencies, businesses, universities, or employers, and issued to a “holder” of the VC. A Verifiable Credential is another JSON Document that contains credentials issued by a trusted entity to a “holder”, both identified by a DID. Such a document contains all the cryptographic materials or metadata associated with the DID. A DID is a global ID that can be dereferenced into an auditable JSON document (DID document). The IOTA Identity Framework is an implementation of the W3C DID and Verifiable Credentials standards. a company operating in a different country).
For instance, claims already proofed against a given identity issuer are not required to be proofed again against a different one (e.g. As a result DIDs allow for privacy, high scalability and reduction of time and costs. Decentralized digital identities (DIDs) are a new type of digital identities that do not require any one to one integration between identity issuers and identity verifiers. Thus, we can conclude that in the context of privacy-sensitive, heterogeneous, global, or distributed application services, centralized or federated identities have many drawbacks.Īnd this is where Decentralized Identities come to the rescue. For instance, an organization trading in one country has to be verified again to trade in a different country. These problems are also happening in global trade and supply chains. On the other hand, often (federated) identities are stored by a cloud service, but this has privacy implications, as anytime we interact with a service the cloud-based identity “gatekeeper” knows it. Currently identities are usually locked into specific systems and are not portable. An identity is composed by the attributes a system knows about a particular actor (person, organization device, etc.). There are many business processes, particularly along supply chains, that involve digital identities. We recommend you to read it if you have not done it yet.ĭecentralized Identities based on DLT open up new solutions In our previous blogpost we gave an overview of what a Distributed Ledger is and particularly IOTA.
When it comes to supply chains, this SDK, in combination with the already available Track & Trace Ledger APIs, facilitates building digital solutions that allow securely sharing non-repudiable, trusted and immutable data among multiple stakeholders. In particular, the first public release includes an “Identity Enabler” that can be used to issue, verify and manage decentralized, interoperable identities for people, organizations and devices. This blog introduces the new Zebra-IOTA Edge SDK and how it can be used to build and test decentralized solutions leveraging the IOTA Distributed Ledger. A new SDK combines Zebra devices with blockchain to facilitate the development of decentralized solutions on the edge
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