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Co-founders Cab Morris and Jennifer O & Rourke attest to the Chicago Loop offices in November 2018Brett Scarola
Cab Morris and Jennifer O & Rourke have been working for two years to give their fellow citizens in the United States and Facebook users more control over their personal information. Starting with their previous daily jobs in the state of Illinois, the two began to explore how decentralized technology like the one that powers bitcoins could help make this possible.
Morris, former director of the state's blockchain strategy, and O & # 39; Rourke, the former deputy director of state entrepreneurship, have worked together on five early-stage blockchain attempts at Illinois, including potential use of the blockchain as a more transparent way of issuing acts for state ownership and a way to increase access and control of state citizens on their medical records.
But over and over again, one thing has prevented the modernization of the way the state deals with industries far beyond the real estate and healthcare sector: how the citizens of the state demonstrate who they are at every step of the way, from basic access through Facebook to more sophisticated forms of identity, including driving licenses, social security cards and more. Those who owned the data, how it was controlled and if it were honored across borders, proved to be almost an insurmountable obstacle.
Thus, in March 2018, Morris, 27, and O & # 39; Rourke, 37, left their government positions to build a private solution called Attest, which they hope will serve more than just Illinois citizens and citizens. Americans, but citizens all over the world. Now, after eight months of quiet rest, Attest announces its first major partnership with Deloitte, and potential integration into one of the Big Four end-to-end solutions.
"I would not say it's a replacement, but a truly digital version of your social security card, your driver's license, your health records," says Morris, who is now the CEO of Attest. "But one that allows you to cryptographically authenticate a variety of different service providers in a way that you normally use Facebook Connect or Google Sign-in."
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Attest has so far been initiated by Morris and O & # 39; Rourke. After incubating the company in a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group, the couple formed a technical partnership with the 3.0 Digital Bazaar web solutions platform to build the government identity solution . Currently, Attest is working to create two products.
The first product is a cryptographically protected identity archive similar to the portfolios that bitcoin owners use to store their cryptocurrency. Instead of cryptocurrency, the Attest portfolio will allow users to archive digital versions of a wide range of government and corporate IDs in one location. Unlike current government IDs that show everyone the address of the citizen, even if they only need to view the age, the Attest wallets are designed to allow users to control who sees what, and how it is monetized , if not at all.
Currently, ways to demonstrate identity through a central authority determine a number of weaknesses. Driving licenses and social security cards are based on paper and plastic solutions that are easier to fake than cryptographic signatures. Business solutions like Facebook are increasingly challenged by the way they monetize their users' data, and credit agencies like Equifax create what is called a "honey jar" of data that has already attracted successful hackers.
By moving the identity data behind individual portfolios plotted on a distributed ledger, honey pots could be decentralized, as a hacker would have to enter each wallet individually. "In a sense the cyber risk economy starts moving a bit because with the blockchain," says Morris, "it's a bit more distributed, and it's encrypted by user."
A second product called Attest Enterprise will consist of two APIs (Application Programming Interface) that allow users to authenticate who they are, authorize third parties and allow others to manage their identity on their behalf, if they wish. "We are trying to provide consumers with all the tools to manage them as much as possible," says Morris. "But you also understand that there are some parts of the population that will not be able to handle that key as easily."
While Morris and O & Rourke provide internal governmental expertise on bureaucratic and logistical obstacles around the building of a decentralized identity, they rely largely on Digital Bazaar's technical work to integrate two major open standards into the identity solution of Attest. It is expected that only a portion of the final product will use blockchain technology and that the actual blockchain platform has not yet been determined.
Specifically, the team of eight employees of Attest and Digital Bazaar is building the identity platform to allow governments to certify their driving license, social security card etc. Using a verifiable credential specification developed in a W3C workgroup. Other standards The president of the O & # 39; Rourke attack says that it is crucial to get the right blockchain identity are the FIPS standards (National Institute of Standards and Technology) for the processing of federal information, developed initially as a federal standard for archiving information and now widely used by the private sector as well.
Collectively, the two tools of Attest are designed to allow a citizen to move to a new state or country for a job, simultaneously update his deed and health insurance coverage provided by his new employer, in one place , for example . "Being able to have a standardized data set capable of interacting between these two very different departments and two very different use cases would be incredibly valuable," says O Rourke.
In the future, Morris and O & # 39; Rourke will work with Deloitte's chief executive of government services and blockchain leader Wendy Henry to build government-compliant identifiers that can be used by Big Four customers. But the competition will remain rigid.
In addition to Deloitte, which launched its Smart Identity prototype in 2016, several other blockchain identity solutions are under development, including companies like IBM and startup venture backs such as Civic. In September, Deloitte published a relationship assess the applications of blockchains explored by the public sector, including intra-governmental transactions, voting, land registrations, supply chain, health care and taxation.
But Henry of Deloitte, defines the blockchain identity the "holy grail" that his company has been pursuing "for a while" and not coming far enough ". If Attest manages to reach the goal, Henry says that Deloitte is ready and waiting. "We are trying to integrate them into an end-to-end solution where they will help provide some of the digital identity credentials that I can not disclose," says Henry.
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Co-founders Cab Morris and Jennifer O & Rourke attest to the Chicago Loop offices in November 2018Brett Scarola
Cab Morris and Jennifer O & Rourke have been working for two years to give their fellow citizens in the United States and Facebook users more control over their personal information. Starting with their previous daily jobs in the state of Illinois, the two began to explore how decentralized technology like the one that powers bitcoins could help make this possible.
Morris, former director of the state's blockchain strategy, and O & # 39; Rourke, the former deputy director of state entrepreneurship, have worked together on five early-stage blockchain attempts at Illinois, including potential use of the blockchain as a more transparent way of issuing acts for state ownership and a way to increase access and control of state citizens on their medical records.
But over and over again, one thing has prevented the modernization of the way the state deals with industries far beyond the real estate and healthcare sector: how the citizens of the state demonstrate who they are at every step of the way, from basic access through Facebook to more sophisticated forms of identity, including driving licenses, social security cards and more. Those who owned the data, how it was controlled and if it were honored across borders, proved to be almost an insurmountable obstacle.
Thus, in March 2018, Morris, 27, and O & # 39; Rourke, 37, left their government positions to build a private solution called Attest, which they hope will serve more than just Illinois citizens and citizens. Americans, but citizens all over the world. Now, after eight months of quiet rest, Attest announces its first major partnership with Deloitte, and potential integration into one of the Big Four end-to-end solutions.
"I would not say it's a replacement, but a truly digital version of your social security card, your driver's license, your health records," says Morris, who is now the CEO of Attest. "But one that allows you to cryptographically authenticate a variety of different service providers in a way that you normally use Facebook Connect or Google Sign-in."
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Attest has so far been initiated by Morris and O & # 39; Rourke. After incubating the company in a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group, the couple formed a technical partnership with the 3.0 Digital Bazaar web solutions platform to build the government identity solution . Currently, Attest is working to create two products.
The first product is a cryptographically protected identity archive similar to the portfolios that bitcoin owners use to store their cryptocurrency. Instead of cryptocurrency, the Attest portfolio will allow users to archive digital versions of a wide range of government and corporate IDs in one location. Unlike current government IDs that show everyone the address of the citizen, even if they only need to view the age, the Attest wallets are designed to allow users to control who sees what, and how it is monetized , if not at all.
Currently, ways to demonstrate identity through a central authority determine a number of weaknesses. Driving licenses and social security cards are based on paper and plastic solutions that are easier to fake than cryptographic signatures. Business solutions like Facebook are increasingly challenged by the way they monetize their users' data and credit agencies such as Equifax create what is called a "honey pot" of data that has already attracted successful hackers.
By moving the identity data behind individual portfolios plotted on a distributed ledger, honey pots could be decentralized, as a hacker would have to enter each wallet individually. "In a sense the cyber risk economy starts moving a bit because with the blockchain," says Morris, "it's a bit more distributed, and it's encrypted by user."
A second product called Attest Enterprise will consist of two APIs (Application Programming Interface) that allow users to authenticate who they are, authorize third parties and allow others to manage their identity on their behalf, if they wish. "We are trying to provide consumers with all the tools to manage them as much as possible," says Morris. "But you also understand that there are some parts of the population that will not be able to handle that key as easily."
While Morris and O & Rourke provide internal governmental expertise on bureaucratic and logistical obstacles around the building of a decentralized identity, they rely largely on Digital Bazaar's technical work to integrate two major open standards into the identity solution of Attest. It is expected that only a portion of the final product will use blockchain technology and that the actual blockchain platform has not yet been determined.
Specifically, the team of eight employees of Attest and Digital Bazaar is building the identity platform to allow governments to certify their driving license, social security card etc. Using a verifiable credential specification developed in a W3C workgroup. Other standards The president of the O & # 39; Rourke attack says that it is crucial to get the right blockchain identity are the FIPS standards (National Institute of Standards and Technology) for the processing of federal information, developed initially as a federal standard for archiving information and now widely used by the private sector as well.
Collectively, the two tools of Attest are designed to allow a citizen to move to a new state or country for a job, simultaneously update his deed and health insurance coverage provided by his new employer, in one place , for example . "Being able to have a standardized data set capable of interacting between these two very different departments and two very different use cases would be incredibly valuable," says O Rourke.
In the future, Morris and O & # 39; Rourke will work with Deloitte's chief executive of government services and blockchain leader Wendy Henry to build government-compliant identifiers that can be used by Big Four customers. But the competition will remain rigid.
In addition to Deloitte, which launched its Smart Identity prototype in 2016, several other blockchain identity solutions are under development, including companies like IBM and startup venture backs such as Civic. In September, Deloitte published an assessment report of blockchain applications explored by the public sector, including intra-governmental transactions, voting, land registrations, supply chains, health care and taxation.
But Henry of Deloitte, defines the blockchain identity the "holy grail" that his company has been pursuing "for a while" and not coming far enough ". If Attest manages to reach the goal, Henry says that Deloitte is ready and waiting. "We are trying to integrate them into an end-to-end solution where they will help provide some of the digital identity credentials that I can not disclose," says Henry.
