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Security, Silos, and Sovereignty

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Maintainer: Daniel Hardman · 2021-03-12 · checked 2026-10-15

A 2021 analysis by Daniel Hardman asking what makes decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and DIDComm worth adopting when secure messaging already exists. Starting from losing a Signal account with a phone number, it argues that the benefit is not encryption but a portable trust context that can move across transports and devices without correlation, which the author calls self-sovereign security.

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