author: Likitha Soorea

Likitha is currently doing Ph.D on Network Security at VIT University, Vellore. Her area of interest is cryptography and network security. Her doctoral research is focused on investigating various authentication protocols and currently working on designing a decentralised authentication scheme for remote user applications. She has published research papers in national and International scopus indexed journals. She has pursued M Tech in software Technology from VIT University, Vellore in the year 2014 and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bangalore in the year 2012. She has two years of experience as an Assistant Professor at Sree Vidyaniketan Engineering College, Tirupati and about three years of research experience. She is also involved into writing Hypersign Protocol research paper.

In depth introduction to Self Sovereign Identity (SSI)

By Vishwas Anand , Likitha Soorea on 2020-06-14

In our previous blog titles - Digital Identity: Past, Present and Future, we went through the journey of digital identity and tried understanding how it evolved over the period and where it is heading. We ended our discussion with the basic introduction of Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) system. If you have not read that blog, I encourage you to read that first before proceeding with this blog. In this blog, we will take a deeper dive into SSI and will try understanding how it works under the hood.

#SSI #digital identity #DID #authentication #centralised #federated #user-centric

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Digital Identity: Past; Present; Future

By Vishwas Anand , Likitha Soorea on 2020-04-19

Today, many countries across the globe are implementing digital identities to accelerate the adoption of their digital services. While going through the research articles on digital identities, one of the questions raised is “why is the digital industry looking up for it?”. We’d like to share some experiences on this journey, let’s start with a basic question “what is an identity?” take a moment to think… and try to put the thoughts into a clear definition.

#SSI #digital identity #DID #authentication #centralised #federated #user-centric

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