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    Drilling down: Open Source
            A crash-course in the complex world of variously-open software licensing
        
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    3 Oct 2020
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    Understanding DIDComm
            A cross-community effort to standardize on common, DID-anchored capabilities
        
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    28 Sep 2020
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    Where to begin?
            A DIF Overview of Introductory Resources (August 2020)
        
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    17 Aug 2020
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    DIF’s Updated Code of Conduct
            Setting a tone for inclusive collaboration
        
        Foundation
        
    21 Jul 2020
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    Building interoperable ZKP credential systems
            Verifiable credentials are a kind of signed, tamper-proof digital document that uses cryptography to strongly authenticate the information shared between participants. There are many design and behavioral considerations when building
        
        Foundation
        
    15 Jul 2020
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            decentralized identity
        
    DIF is opening up: Join for free
            Getting involved, contributing, and following along will be easier than ever
        
        Foundation
        
    1 Jul 2020
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            decentralized identity
        
    DIF Virtual Face-to-Face, June 2020
            Highlights, videos, and links from the first DIF F2F Virtual, January 2020
        
        Foundation
        
    23 Jun 2020
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            decentralized identity
        
    Decentralized identity community comments for NIST’s RFC (FIPS 186–5 and SP 800–186)
            The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is requesting comments (official request) on the Federal Information Processing…
        
        Foundation
        
    30 Jan 2020
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    1 min read
    
            interoperability
        
    The Self-sovereign Identity Stack
            At the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) XXVII in Mountain View, Oliver Terbu
 and Rouven Heck from ConsenSys invited other experts from the DIF and in the identity space to jointly work on an SSI stack definition.
        
        Foundation, Working Groups
        
    5 Sep 2019
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            education
        
    Where to begin with OIDC and SIOP
            How today’s most powerful authentication mechanisms can be decentralized
        
        Working Groups, Foundation
        
    28 Jul 2019
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    6 min read
    
            foundation
        
    The DID Dilemma: When is an identifier ‘decentralized’?
            A productive and controversial session at #IIW28 lead to a months-long conversation about defining, benchmarking, and making objective "decentralization" as a design goal.
        
        Foundation
        
    4 Jun 2019
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    Decentralized Identity Foundation Grows To 56 Members In Our First Year
            Today marks the Decentralized Identity Foundation’s first anniversary. Over the past year, DIF has grown from a handful of founding…
        
        Foundation
        
    21 May 2018
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    The Rising Tide of Decentralized Identity
            Prior to the formation of the Decentralized Identity Foundation in May, the market for decentralized identity was fragmented. Organizations…
        
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    10 Oct 2017
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