MIT Legal Forum 2017: Deconstructing Self-Sovereign Identity

For most of us, we have an obscene amount of usernames and passwords that we use to access social media, bank accounts, and pretty much everything else on the internet. But what if we had one key or identity to unlock all our accounts? In this report from On The Road, host Amy ter Haar talks to Drummond Reed about self-sovereign identity, how it works, and what it could mean for the future of law. He clarifies what problems a decentralized identifier solves and how this emerging technology has been standardized.

Drummond Reed has spent over two decades working on internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks.