2 posts tagged with "Self Sovereign Identity"

Web Assembly​

Web Assembly is a popular format for running binary applications in web browsers (with wide support).

This can have a few advantages but the interesting thing for us is that this can allow sharing of implementations of functionality: credential issuance, DID resolving, cryptographic functions, etc which you may not want to necessarily re-implement in JavaScript or TypeScript.

The SSI-SDK is an implementation of a lot of standards for self sovereign identity, so it is a great candidate to expose via WASM to web apps.

Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an umbrella term well-detailed by Christopher Allen, and inspired by many in the Identity community before him, in his 2016 blog post: The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity, which identifies Ten Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity: