Cryptography is a wonderful world of complexity. From Bob and Alice used to explain asymmetric cryptography to today's one time passwords generator, all theses solutions need to be understandable to be trusted and used correctly.
This presentation will be in 4 parts:
Cryptography basics (present Alice and Bob) a reminder about public private keys, encryption and signature; Introduction to the Decentralized IDentity; the vocabulary, the specification and the challenges. DID are ways to assign a digital identity of a holder/citizen/user. (demo of did:web) Verifiable credentials are like “parts of government ID” or any document we would like to prove authenticy of. The holder/user can control what part of the document to share with third parties when needed and then help limit GDPR and personal data disclosure. Other use case for verifible credentials is to ease changes between companies, quick presentation of the Eona-X project and specifically its authentication mechanism.