Decentralized Identity Tools
Self-sovereign identity and credentials that don't depend on a single issuing authority.
Partial overlap. Every host, control-plane member and operator session in Decentralized.Host has an Ed25519 identity (dh1… ids) chained to a cluster root key. It is infrastructure identity, not personal identity: there are no user accounts, and did:dh owner identities are planned, not built.
What this covers
Decentralized identity (DID) systems let a person or organization hold and control their own identifiers and credentials -- a public/private keypair, plus signed claims about them ("this university issued this degree to this key") -- without a central authority like a government database or a single company's login system being the sole source of truth. W3C's DID and Verifiable Credentials specs are the standardized core most implementations build on; Ethereum's ENS (Ethereum Name Service) is a narrower, widely-used example that maps human-readable names to addresses and other records on-chain.
Why it's hard in practice
The technical part (public-key cryptography, signed claims) is well-understood. The hard part is social and practical: who verifies that a credential issuer is legitimate, what happens when you lose your private key (there's no "forgot password" flow for a self-custodied identity), and getting enough real-world issuers (universities, governments, employers) to actually issue verifiable credentials instead of PDFs. Most decentralized identity today is used within crypto-native contexts (wallet-based logins, ENS names as profile identifiers) rather than as a replacement for government ID or enterprise SSO.
Self-sovereign identity and credentials that don't depend on a single issuing authority. Partial overlap. Every host, control-plane member and operator session in Decentralized.Host has an Ed25519 identity (dh1… ids) chained to a cluster root key. It is infrastructure identity, not personal identity: there are no user accounts, and did:dh owner identities are planned, not built.