Our Own Open Decentralized Identity Network

• Tech Talk video
• Web page (Liberated Trust, First Amendment 2.0, Democracy 2.0)

I'm screen recording on this demo phone

• Might be confusing, might look like your phone
• Hopefully, you can see my screen clicks, touches, swipes
• Immediate surroundings...
• A phone with my (the speaker, call me Tom) identity
• A laptop

ONE-OF-US.NET home page

• App Store links
• Motivation: Liberated Trust, First Amendment 2.0, Democracy 2.0, ...
• Tech Details: Embedded examples, ...
• Open source links

Launch ONE-OF-US.NET identity app

• Create a new identity key. Congratulations!
• I have a cryptographic public/private key pair.

Vouch for Tom (human, capable..) by scanning his phone

• Share (email, text, ..) invitation with Tom

• The vouch statement is cryptographically signed with the key on this phone and published publicly on the Internet
  The published statement includes:
  • Tom's public key
  • Signature made by this phone's private identity key
  • Internet location where Tom's identity key's statements are hosted

Sign in to Nerdster on phone

Create delegate key, yes

Nerdster Like

• Type: Books, Sort: #Comments
• Snooze, dismiss, rate, comment, censor, etc...
• Submit (Use ONE-OF-US.NET website)

Another one of these? Why?

Nerdster Browse

• I know that's Tom because I scanned his phone.
• Click on content by Hillel@Nerdster.org I can see that that's Hillel because Tom vouched for Hillel.

HabloTengo

• See that Hillel uses HabloTengo, click, sign in, Access Denied.
• Our own, open, decentralized identity network can also be used along with privacy.

Block identity (skip? mention?)

• (Reprehensible) Block Hillel: not human acting in good faith, bot / spammer / confused
• Done using identity app (Nerdster doesn't have identity key).
• Hillel no longer exists in Demo phone's network (or those who vouch for Demo phone) - Decentralized

Change Point of View (PoV)

• • Even though I signed in with this bogus demo identity, I can see Tom's legitimate PoV
  • Tom's name is different. I see how his network knows him.
  • Hillel exists.
  • My stuff (the demo identity currently signed in) is gone; Tom did not (and will not) vouch for Demo.
  • You are who my network says you are.
    I am who your network says I am.
  Reset: Change PoV back to me (Demo phone)
  • Tom's in my network, and I see him as "Tom"
  • I'm not in Tom's network; he doesn't see me at all

FYI

• Turn on FYI
• Edit name or comment
• Show interpreted, interpreted
• Publish
• Show interpreted, uninterrupted
• Publish location (also interpreted or not)

Sign in to Nerdster on computer

Scan QR code

Why, briefly

• Authentic, Us, Ours
  • Not accounts on services, only keys we own and control
  • (Tom's account is with those who've vouched for him. We control our delegate keys associations.)
  • Bonus: no fake accounts, no bots
  • Facebook likes, Airbnb ratings, LinkedIn connections.. all of these are owned and live at those services and can only be trusted only when served by them.
  • Your keys, and not locked to any domain, not mine, not ONE-OF-US.NET's, not nerdster.org's...
• Open
  • Let tech play nice together (ONE-OF-US.NET, the Nerdster, HabloTengo are not connected - you tell them who you are, they fetch and verify signed statements from a variety of sources)
  • Published statements are not trusted because of where they came from (what service served them)
    They're trusted (and Portable) because they're signed by your own keys.
  • We demonstrated the Nerdster, a delegate service, could use 100s, 1,000s... without giving any the private component of our identity key.
  • Identity layer establishes identity; any service can leverage that however they like (evolution), eg. Trust a person for rentals, block same for news commentary.

ONE-OF-US app screens

• PEOPLE: Tom - The vouch (trust statement) is signed by my identity key. Tom is human and goes by "Tom". If Tom loses his key or has it compromised, I'll help him out. I know who he is.
• SERVICES: me@nerdster.org - my delegate key on the Nerdster - the key I handed the Nerdster to use it as a tool to state stuff on my behalf. The delegation is signed by my identity key.
• EXPORT: your keys.
• ADVANCED: manage blocks, replace keys, ...

Closing

A different paradigm (like the Internet was).

• We build the network. We let them use it.
  Get us on the same page everywhere. Break the algorithm monopoly of our metadata silos.
• Open = ours, everybody's
• Decentralized = yours (No hierarchy, no power center.)
• Litter the Internet with statements signed by our own keys grounded in our identities rather than pseudonymous and disconnected in siloed accounts.