Winter 2022: Identity and Trust On- and Off-Web

The class will be conducted seminar style and involve presentations by students, guest lecturers, discussions, and projects. Some topics of interest are as follows:

• Self-sovereign identity and verifiable claims: deep dive
• Implementing efficient and easy to use hardware and software wallets
• Mapping use-cases to the technology: trade-offs between coverage & complexity
• Issues inherent in a unified approach to people, services, things and data
• Blockchains & distributed ledgers: what role do they play?
• Designing for the real-world: security, usability, scale
• Co-existing with and leveraging legacy identity and security technologies
• Rethinking micropayments: is it different this time?
• Smart contracts: how do we trust a world that runs as code?