Security News > 2023 > April > Overcoming industry obstacles for decentralized digital identities

Maler also highlights the challenges encountered by various industries in implementing decentralized digital identities.

Decentralized identity is a nascent area, and we're at an exciting moment in time where decentralized digital identities are gaining traction across various industries.

The biggest challenge decentralized digital identity systems face is adoption, as it introduces system complexity and requires changes to the inner workings of both service providers and specialized identity providers as well as changing user experiences.

One of the strongest examples of implementation of decentralized digital identity systems is the mobile driver's license movement in the US for context, an mDL is a driver license stored in secure digital form on a mobile device with the capability to be queried in real time in a privacy-sensitive fashion.

The original name for the research that led to decentralized identity was known as "Blockchain identity." A blockchain or distributed ledger is a key technology, though not a strictly required one, in helping services use "Verifiable credentials" that a user chooses to share out of their digital wallet.

In what ways do you think decentralized digital identities will transform traditional identity verification and authentication systems?

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