Organisations and verification
A person's identity is formed from their relationships with other people and organisations. A public identity is the sum of those relationships.
Individuals make assertions about themselves and about their relationships with other organisations or people. Edentiti provides a way for the individual to verify those assertions.
The person can do this by:
- Asking an organisation if they have specific information about them.
- Signing on to another system
- Providing electronic documents with personal information
- Asking a trusted person who knows them to verify assertions
- Point to publicly available information
Verification through Edentiti is an interactive operation between the person and other entities. It is not Edentiti verifying a relationship but it is the individual showing that their assertions are true.
The individual proves it is they making the assertions through a biometric. The biometric can be any combination of:
- a secret (a password)
- a device (a telephone they own)
- or a physical characteristic (voice or photo)
