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# History
* [Privacy Preserving Authentication—Another reason to care about ZKP](https://www.slideshare.net/eralcnoslen/privacypreserving-authentication-another-reason-to-care-about-zeroknowledge-proofs) 2017-08-14 Clare Nelson
* [Seeing Self-Sovereign Identity in Historical Context](https://identitywoman.net/wp-content/uploads/Seeing-Self-Sovereign-Identity-in-Historical-Context.pdf) 2022-06 Kaliya 'Identity Woman' Young
  > The first follows the ways in which identities were designed and managed in computer systems. [...] The second history examines the evolution of paper-based identity systems that emerged in Europe. [...] The last section of the paper brings these two histories together and explains why the underlying technological design of SSI aligns with Western liberal democratic values in a way that the earlier digital identity systems designs do not.
* [Legal identity of a person in a digital world](https://medium.com/@vvsm_50580/legal-identity-of-a-person-in-a-digital-world-38f444dc8996) 2022-09-17 Vikas Malhotra
  > Today, Sep 16th is the International Identity Day, a commemoration of the [UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9](https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/documents/UN-Strategy-for-LIA.pdf) which calls for the provision of legal identity for all by 2030.
* [The World’s First Verifiable Credentials](https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/world-s-first-verifiable-credentials) Steve Wilson
  > Commonly associated with blockchain and the Self-Sovereign Identity movement, Verifiable Credentials are in fact an old idea.  It is instructive to break down their essential properties and examine the pioneering examples.

[![](https://i.imgur.com/f3FlznM.png)](https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/989120215702261761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

* [A brief history of SSI: Where does it come from? A timeline.](https://jolocom.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-ssi-where-does-it-come-from-a-timeline/)

A short timeline highlights just how quickly SSI has developed. It underlines the path and development of the evolution of Internet Identity.


* [An Outlook on 2022](https://jolocom.io/blog/an-outlook-on-2022/) JoloCom

For us, interoperability will remain a very present topic for the next year ([https://jolocom.io/blog/can-we-avoid-a-ssi-babel/](https://jolocom.io/blog/can-we-avoid-a-ssi-babel/).
* Christopher Allen: [Not Moxie Marlinspike](https://www.moxytongue.com/2021/09/not-moxie-marlinspike.html), Oft confused, no more.
  * [Link to a corrected attribution Devon Lofretto is not Moxie Marlinspike](https://github.com/lifewithalacrity/lifewithalacrity.github.io/commit/52c30ec1d649494066c3e9c9fa1bbaf95cd6386f)
  > Self-Sovereign Identity has deep roots. It did not just emerge in 2016 after a blog post was written. It did not fail to exist when wikipedia editors denied it subject integrity with the stated message: "good luck with that".

* [An Identity Through Time](https://iiw.idcommons.net/23D/_An_Identity_Through_Time) by David Schmudde

The history of identity online. Finger, CompuServe, DNS/WWW, Facebook

The slides are based on this blog post: [https://schmud.de/posts/2021-04-22-id-through-time.html](https://schmud.de/posts/2021-04-22-id-through-time.html)

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Nothing to prevent players to take advantage of SSI. They may add something small and useful aspects to the protocols.

The hope is that our stuff is super interoperable. So you can actually really leave.

Facebook is interesting because it was based on the .edu domain. Small network. Solving for the endstate that we see now is different than starting back then.

Zero-knowledge proofs and trustless networks may require high-trust environments for adoptions.


* [State of Identity with IDRamp](https://oneworldidentity.com/podcast/idramp-2/) (Enterprise SSI company)
  > As someone who has uniquely spent their full career immersed in identity, Mike Vesey (CEO of IdRamp) shares an insider perspective of how the industry has evolved during his tenure. This episode dives into the impacts of rapid digitalization worldwide, where identity is heading due to digital transformation, and the benefits that come with it.

SSI vs Santa

* [Phil Wolff shares](https://twitter.com/evanwolf/status/1339128612650291203):
  > In 2021 Santa decentralizes his list, no longer relying on children’s Real Names in compliance with kid privacy laws. Self-sovereign identity lets kids ask Santa, confident their identities are authenticated (right toys to the right kid) & that he uses verified naughty/nice data.