Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
“Cypherpunks wouldn’t just critique the surveillance state—they’d also call out us technologists for enabling it. We were supposed to resist, not retrofit...
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Self-Sovereign Identity
SSI Orbit Podcast: Christopher Allen Interview
On January 31, Christopher Allen spoke with Mathieu Glaude at the SSI Orbit Podcast on the controversial topic “Has Our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Has our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt?
This topic was presented at IIWXXXIX Fall 2024 on October 29, 2024. My name is Christopher Allen. In 2016, in advance of the ID2020 conference at the Unit...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Edge Identifiers & Cliques
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been advocating for the creation of secure digital infrastructures that protect human rights, civil liberties, and human dignity on...
Foremembrance Day 2024 Presentation
For Foremembrance Day 2024, Christopher Allen gave a Twitter Livestream discussing the tragedy of overidentification in The Netherlands in WWII, how France o...
Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which c...
Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care
This article was originally published as an advance reading for RWOT12 in Köln, Germany on August 9, 2023. It has been slightly edited for this reprint. ...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Least & Necessary Design Patterns
ABSTRACT: The principles of least privilege and least authority are core computer security principles that can minimize attacks. Not only can they be exte...
Musings of a Trust Architect: The Origins of Self-Sovereign Identity
ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution...
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets
UPDATE 2023-02-16: This bill has passed the Wyoming Assembly 41-13, a day after the Wyoming Senate passed it by a vote of 31-0. If Wyoming Governor Mark Gord...
Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity
This summer, we’ve been iterating through an article intended to talk about the success that Blockchain Commons has had working with the Wyoming legislature ...
Self-Sovereign Identity: 5 Years On
Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity author and Blockchain Commons founder Christopher Allen that lays out some of the ...
Gordian Architecture
Musings of a Trust Architect: Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA)
ABSTRACT: Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) is an alternative to the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach, emphasizing the importance of a robust, scalab...
Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision
Or: How to Stay Heart Healthy, but Not Become the New Fitbit Murderer Many of us have heard of the Fitbit murder case: a husband killed his wife and then ...
The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education
And How to Resolve them Using Holder-Based Hashed Elision Digital credentials are the next step in credentialing because they’re quite simply a better way...
Why CBOR?
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
Gordian Envelope Use Cases Overview
Gordian Envelopes can be used to store and transmit information in a structured, privacy preserving way. By what does that mean? Following are examples of fo...
Gordian Seed Tool Reveals the Foundations of Cryptography
Blockchain Commons has released Gordian Seed Tool, a new iOS app that allows for the creation, storage, backup, and transformation of cryptographic seeds i...
Gordian QR Tool Supports Vaccine Records, 2FAs, Cryptoseeds, and More
The state of California recently announced their Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record system. It allows Californians to access a digital copy of their vaccine rec...
Announcing Blockchain Discussion Forum
Blockchain Commons has been accepted into the new GitHub discussion program, allowing for more freeform discussions within the context of our GitHub repos. A...
Advocacy
Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
At Blockchain Commons, we design open infrastructure that prioritizes privacy, autonomy, and human dignity. That’s why I support and personally signed the ...
Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
“Cypherpunks wouldn’t just critique the surveillance state—they’d also call out us technologists for enabling it. We were supposed to resist, not retrofit...
SSI Orbit Podcast: Christopher Allen Interview
On January 31, Christopher Allen spoke with Mathieu Glaude at the SSI Orbit Podcast on the controversial topic “Has Our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt...
Foremembrance Day 2024 Presentation
For Foremembrance Day 2024, Christopher Allen gave a Twitter Livestream discussing the tragedy of overidentification in The Netherlands in WWII, how France o...
Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which c...
Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care
This article was originally published as an advance reading for RWOT12 in Köln, Germany on August 9, 2023. It has been slightly edited for this reprint. ...
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets
UPDATE 2023-02-16: This bill has passed the Wyoming Assembly 41-13, a day after the Wyoming Senate passed it by a vote of 31-0. If Wyoming Governor Mark Gord...
Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity
This summer, we’ve been iterating through an article intended to talk about the success that Blockchain Commons has had working with the Wyoming legislature ...
Top Articles
Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
At Blockchain Commons, we design open infrastructure that prioritizes privacy, autonomy, and human dignity. That’s why I support and personally signed the ...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal...
Hackernoon: Christopher Allen Interview
“Cypherpunks wouldn’t just critique the surveillance state—they’d also call out us technologists for enabling it. We were supposed to resist, not retrofit...
2025 Q1 Blockchain Commons Report
Blockchain Commons focused on the ZeWIF project for the Zcash blockchain during the first quarter of 2025, but that didn’t stopped us from also advancing a...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases
When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary o...
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Trust
Musings of a Trust Architect: How My Values Inform Design
ABSTRACT: By grounding technical decisions in ethical values, we can create compassionate digital architectures. This article examines how core human valu...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Building Trust in Gradients
Progressive Trust—it sounds a bit like something from a relationship advice column, right? But in the world of digital interactions, it’s actually a revoluti...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Open Silicon
ABSTRACT: Drawing inspiration from Ken Thompson’s seminal work, Reflections on Trusting Trust, there are deep-rooted challenges in establishing trust in c...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Problems of Cryptographic Agility
ABSTRACT: Cryptographic agility was once seen as a desirable goal for computer security, but increasingly problems such as high costs, bad interactions, a...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Data Minimization & Selective Disclosure
I have been struggling for a while to communicate my framing of definitions for Data Minimization and Selective Disclosure, which are privacy-focused data-pr...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Progressive Trust
A New Approach to Building Trust in Decentralized Systems by Christopher Allen Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity a...
Gordian Envelope
Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision
Or: How to Stay Heart Healthy, but Not Become the New Fitbit Murderer Many of us have heard of the Fitbit murder case: a husband killed his wife and then ...
The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education
And How to Resolve them Using Holder-Based Hashed Elision Digital credentials are the next step in credentialing because they’re quite simply a better way...
Why CBOR?
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
Gordian Envelope Use Cases Overview
Gordian Envelopes can be used to store and transmit information in a structured, privacy preserving way. By what does that mean? Following are examples of fo...
Yearly Overview
Blockchain Commons 2024 Overview
Making Visions Reality We’ve often written in our yearly reports that the goal of Blockchain Commons is “the creation of open, interoperable, secure &...
Blockchain Commons 2023 Overview
Welcome to Blockchain Commons’ yearly report on our status and projects.
Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview
2022 might have been Blockchain Commons’ strongest year ever. Though we laid down much of our foundational architecture a few years ago, we returned this y...
Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview
Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...
Progressive Trust
Musings of a Trust Architect: How My Values Inform Design
ABSTRACT: By grounding technical decisions in ethical values, we can create compassionate digital architectures. This article examines how core human valu...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Building Trust in Gradients
Progressive Trust—it sounds a bit like something from a relationship advice column, right? But in the world of digital interactions, it’s actually a revoluti...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Data Minimization & Selective Disclosure
I have been struggling for a while to communicate my framing of definitions for Data Minimization and Selective Disclosure, which are privacy-focused data-pr...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Progressive Trust
A New Approach to Building Trust in Decentralized Systems by Christopher Allen Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity a...
Standards
Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Interop, What Is It Good For?
In early 2025, Blockchain Commons architected and engineered a major project for the Zcash blockchain: the ZeWIF specification that allows all of its wall...
Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Why CBOR?
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
FROST
Results of Second FROST Round Table Published
On September 18, 2024, Blockchain Commons held its second Round Table on FROST. Almost twenty expert cryptographers, designers, and developers came together ...
Blockchain Commons Awarded FROST Grant from Human Rights Foundation
Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a Bitcoin Development Fund grant to Blockchain Common for its continued support of the development of FROS...
Results of First FROST Round Table Published
On November 8, 2023, Blockchain Commons held its first Round Table on FROST. The results have been published at our FROST developer pages. The meeting inclu...
Musings of a Trust Architect: A Layperson’s Intro to Schnorr
ABSTRACT: Schnorr signatures have been a long time coming, but now that they’re finally here, they open up broad new cryptographic frontiers, including th...
Airgap
Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web
Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Announcing Blockchain Discussion Forum
Blockchain Commons has been accepted into the new GitHub discussion program, allowing for more freeform discussions within the context of our GitHub repos. A...
Legislation
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Private Key Disclosure: A Needless Threat to Rights and Assets
UPDATE 2023-02-16: This bill has passed the Wyoming Assembly 41-13, a day after the Wyoming Senate passed it by a vote of 31-0. If Wyoming Governor Mark Gord...
Principal Authority: A New Perspective on Self-Sovereign Identity
This summer, we’ve been iterating through an article intended to talk about the success that Blockchain Commons has had working with the Wyoming legislature ...
Silicon Salon
Silicon Salon 3 Call for Contributions
The Silicon Salon is Back for the New Year! Sign Up Now at Eventbrite Blockchain Commons will be facilitating Silicon Salon 3 in mid-January, tentatively...
Silicon Salon 2 Posted!
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our second Silicon Salon, this one focused on Secure Boot, Supply-Chain Security, and Firmware Upgrades. Courtesy of s...
Announcing the Silicon Salon
What if semiconductor manufacturers made chips especially intended for crypto-wallets? That’s the topic of Blockchain Commons’ first Silicon Salon, which w...
Credentials
Blockchain Commons Signs No Phone Home Initiative
At Blockchain Commons, we design open infrastructure that prioritizes privacy, autonomy, and human dignity. That’s why I support and personally signed the ...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Least & Necessary Design Patterns
ABSTRACT: The principles of least privilege and least authority are core computer security principles that can minimize attacks. Not only can they be exte...
The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education
And How to Resolve them Using Holder-Based Hashed Elision Digital credentials are the next step in credentialing because they’re quite simply a better way...
Foremembrance
Foremembrance Day 2024 Presentation
For Foremembrance Day 2024, Christopher Allen gave a Twitter Livestream discussing the tragedy of overidentification in The Netherlands in WWII, how France o...
Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which c...
Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care
This article was originally published as an advance reading for RWOT12 in Köln, Germany on August 9, 2023. It has been slightly edited for this reprint. ...
Identity
Musings of a Trust Architect: Has our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt?
This topic was presented at IIWXXXIX Fall 2024 on October 29, 2024. My name is Christopher Allen. In 2016, in advance of the ID2020 conference at the Unit...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Open & Fuzzy Cliques
Digital communities are collections of individual entities that are connected together. They can be modeled as graphs, with the individuals being nodes and t...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Edge Identifiers & Cliques
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been advocating for the creation of secure digital infrastructures that protect human rights, civil liberties, and human dignity on...
SSKR
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Project Proposal: New Social Social Key Recovery Approach
The goal of social key recovery is for the user to specify groups of individuals that together possess the ability to recover the root secret of a wallet. A ...
Smart Custody
First #SmartCustody Workshop: Simple Cold Storage & Self-Custody
Our first #SmartCustody workshop will be on Tue, January 29, 2019, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST, at 554 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94040-1217, Map. You can s...
Project Proposal: New Social Social Key Recovery Approach
The goal of social key recovery is for the user to specify groups of individuals that together possess the ability to recover the root secret of a wallet. A ...
AirGap
Blockchain Commons’ Uniform Resources (URs) Support Airgapped PSBTs & More
The Uniform Resources specification is one of Blockchain Commons’ most notable wallet enhancements of 2020: it enables airgapped PSBTs and is supported throu...
Blockchain Commons Releases Feature-complete LetheKit
Blockchain Commons has released a feature-complete version of LetheKit, a do-it-yourself hardware platform that allows you to conduct cryptographic operation...
UR
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Blockchain Commons’ Uniform Resources (URs) Support Airgapped PSBTs & More
The Uniform Resources specification is one of Blockchain Commons’ most notable wallet enhancements of 2020: it enables airgapped PSBTs and is supported throu...
RWOT
Musings of a Trust Architect: The Origins of Self-Sovereign Identity
ABSTRACT: The idea of Self-Sovereign Identity emerged in 2016, but it has inspirations dating back centuries. This article explores the historic evolution...
Self-Sovereign Identity: 5 Years On
Musings of a Trust Architect is a series of articles by Life with Alacrity author and Blockchain Commons founder Christopher Allen that lays out some of the ...
LifeHash
Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web
Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Vision
Blockchain Commons 2022 Overview
2022 might have been Blockchain Commons’ strongest year ever. Though we laid down much of our foundational architecture a few years ago, we returned this y...
Blockchain Commons 2021 Overview
Though Blockchain Commons initiatives date back to our 2016 foundation of Rebooting the Web of Trust and our 2017 work on Learning Bitcoin ...
W3C
The Dangers of Digital Credentials in Education
And How to Resolve them Using Holder-Based Hashed Elision Digital credentials are the next step in credentialing because they’re quite simply a better way...
Seven Years Later: DIDs Have Been Ratified!
Congratulations to W3C on the ratification of DID v1.0 as a W3C standard! Though Blockchain Commons has only lightly touched upon DIDs to date, they nonet...
CBOR
Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Why CBOR?
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
IETF
Deterministic CBOR Goes to IETF
If you’ll be at IETF 117, we hope you’ll join us for dCBOR discussions there on Monday July 24th. The CBOR meeting will be 17:30-18:30 July 24th (Session IV)...
Why CBOR?
Why CBOR? Blockchain Commons is dedicated to developing open-source technical specifications, reference implementations, and tooling that help developers ...
Round Table
Results of Second FROST Round Table Published
On September 18, 2024, Blockchain Commons held its second Round Table on FROST. Almost twenty expert cryptographers, designers, and developers came together ...
Results of First FROST Round Table Published
On November 8, 2023, Blockchain Commons held its first Round Table on FROST. The results have been published at our FROST developer pages. The meeting inclu...
Cliques
Musings of a Trust Architect: Open & Fuzzy Cliques
Digital communities are collections of individual entities that are connected together. They can be modeled as graphs, with the individuals being nodes and t...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Edge Identifiers & Cliques
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve been advocating for the creation of secure digital infrastructures that protect human rights, civil liberties, and human dignity on...
Values
Musings of a Trust Architect: The Case for an International Right to Freedom to Transact
I recently wrote about “How My Values Inform Design”. There I discussed the issue of autonomy and how it can be supported by progressive trust, proof against...
Musings of a Trust Architect: How My Values Inform Design
ABSTRACT: By grounding technical decisions in ethical values, we can create compassionate digital architectures. This article examines how core human valu...
Zcash
Musings of a Trust Architect: Fair Witnessing in a Decentralized World
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal...
Musings of a Trust Architect: Interop, What Is It Good For?
In early 2025, Blockchain Commons architected and engineered a major project for the Zcash blockchain: the ZeWIF specification that allows all of its wall...
Bitcoin Framework
Announcing Open Source Bitcoin Framework for iOS
Building on Libbitcoin Today we are announcing the availability of the open source Bitcoin framework for iOS. We have been working with veteran iOS develope...
iOS Libraries
Announcing Open Source Bitcoin Framework for iOS
Building on Libbitcoin Today we are announcing the availability of the open source Bitcoin framework for iOS. We have been working with veteran iOS develope...
LetheKit
Blockchain Commons Releases Feature-complete LetheKit
Blockchain Commons has released a feature-complete version of LetheKit, a do-it-yourself hardware platform that allows you to conduct cryptographic operation...
Learning Bitcoin
Learning Bitcoin Upgrades to v2.0
Blockchain Commons has recently released v2.0 of our Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line course. Visit the Course Support the Course Learning Bit...
Patents
Blockchain Commons Joins COPA
To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...
COPA
Blockchain Commons Joins COPA
To fulfill its commitment to open source and to a defensive patent strategy, Blockchain Commons has joined COPA, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. ...
Video
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Bytewords
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
Torgap
Blockchain Commons Overviews Its Technology in New Video
In the last year, Blockchain Commons has produced a large collection of specifications, reference libraries, architectures, and reference utilities meant to ...
QR Tool
Gordian QR Tool Supports Vaccine Records, 2FAs, Cryptoseeds, and More
The state of California recently announced their Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record system. It allows Californians to access a digital copy of their vaccine rec...
Seed Tool
Gordian Seed Tool Reveals the Foundations of Cryptography
Blockchain Commons has released Gordian Seed Tool, a new iOS app that allows for the creation, storage, backup, and transformation of cryptographic seeds i...
Web Page
Blockchain Commons Launches LifeHash on the Web
Wolf McNally’s LifeHash is one of Blockchain Commons’ interoperable specifications intended to make digital infrastructure open, interoperable, secure, and...
DID
Seven Years Later: DIDs Have Been Ratified!
Congratulations to W3C on the ratification of DID v1.0 as a W3C standard! Though Blockchain Commons has only lightly touched upon DIDs to date, they nonet...
Wyoming
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Digital Assets
Wyoming Passes Private Key Protection & Digital Asset Registration Laws
Blockchain Commons advocates for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure, to enable people to control their ...
Privacy
Protecting Your Wellness Data with Hashed Elision
Or: How to Stay Heart Healthy, but Not Become the New Fitbit Murderer Many of us have heard of the Fitbit murder case: a husband killed his wife and then ...
Self-Sovereign Computing
Self-Sovereign Computing
ABSTRACT: Self-Sovereign Computing is a transformative paradigm designed to empower individuals to take command of their digital journey and to uphold t...
Self-Sovereign Identit
Self-Sovereign Computing
ABSTRACT: Self-Sovereign Computing is a transformative paradigm designed to empower individuals to take command of their digital journey and to uphold t...
Schnorr
Musings of a Trust Architect: A Layperson’s Intro to Schnorr
ABSTRACT: Schnorr signatures have been a long time coming, but now that they’re finally here, they open up broad new cryptographic frontiers, including th...
Signatures
Musings of a Trust Architect: A Layperson’s Intro to Schnorr
ABSTRACT: Schnorr signatures have been a long time coming, but now that they’re finally here, they open up broad new cryptographic frontiers, including th...
eIDAS
Echoes from History II: The Dangers of eIDAS
This article, like “Echoes from History: Designing Self-Sovereign Identity with Care”, is drawn from a book I have in process called FOREMEMBRANCE, which c...
Open Source
Open Development: The Necessary Next Step for Open Source
This is the meant to be the beginning of a discussion on the topic of Open Development as a growth beyond Open Source. It outlines how we think about ...
Open Development
Open Development: The Necessary Next Step for Open Source
This is the meant to be the beginning of a discussion on the topic of Open Development as a growth beyond Open Source. It outlines how we think about ...
grants
Blockchain Commons Awarded FROST Grant from Human Rights Foundation
Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a Bitcoin Development Fund grant to Blockchain Common for its continued support of the development of FROS...
HRF
Blockchain Commons Awarded FROST Grant from Human Rights Foundation
Today, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a Bitcoin Development Fund grant to Blockchain Common for its continued support of the development of FROS...
Podcasts
SSI Orbit Podcast: Christopher Allen Interview
On January 31, Christopher Allen spoke with Mathieu Glaude at the SSI Orbit Podcast on the controversial topic “Has Our SSI Ecosystem Become Morally Bankrupt...
Open Integrity
Musings of a Trust Architect: Architecting Trust in Software Releases
When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary o...