You get three “utility” identity certificates – each one can be used to identify a different “you,” or persona. They’re all linked to your invisible “foundational” certificate. Like your birth certificate, you keep your foundational certificate in a safe place and seldom use it.

Going forward

Use one persona for a dating site, another for your clients, a third one for family and friends. No one needs to know they’re connected – unless someone gets a court order forcing disclosure.

Your foundational certificate will be able to link to your favorite FIDO, DID, OpenID, or other popular credential, giving you the security of an Osmio VRD certificate behind the convenience of your familiar login credential.

You want to know that those you deal with are who they claim to be – and others want to know the same about you. The Identity Quality score attached to each of your certificates gives others that assurance, even if they don’t know your name, location, age, gender, or anything about you besides your Identity Quality score.

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Quiet Enjoyment

Quiet Enjoyment in the digital world is possible! Join Wes Kussmaul, founder of Delphi and one of the first people to show that the Internet had great potential, as he takes you step by step through the problems of inauthenticity, the process of creating measurably reliable identities, and how you stand to benefit by getting involved now.

Authenticity University provides a curriculum of online courses for in-depth learning about the origin, development, and implementation of Authenticity, including reviews and quizzes. In addition to certification for levels of general competency, courses are available for professional licenses certified by the City of Osmio, such as Attestation Officer, Code Auditor, Blockchain Officer, and Building Inspector.

HAVE Identities Before You Manage Them

Whether your network is cloud-based or on premises, chances are you have outsiders such as contractors, suppliers, distributors, and others accessing your precious digital assets.  Learn how a program of enrollment to digital identity certificates and a policy of DSE – digital signatures everywhere – will bring pervasive accountability, and with it real security, to your enterprise

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For a physician 150 years ago, a substantial part of medical training was about bloodletting.  Is security technology – built on the assumption that you can catch the bad guys by looking at the stream of bits they send – today's bloodletting?  This spoof white paper will make you smile – and think.

Going forward

Hang out with others in Authenticity-enabled social spaces.

Or start your own – knowing with measurable certainty that all participants are who they say they are. Accountability tends to discourage the trolls.

Digital signature services typically rent you an identity just for the duration of the signing. What kind of assurance is that?!

Going forward

With your own digital identity certificate you’ll be able to sign as many mail messages, images, files, videos – anything – without paying a nickel.

You’ll participate in a society where DSE – Digital Signatures Everywhere – prevails. Whatever people do, they are accountable. Anonymous, but accountable. If you have an issue with someone, a court order will reveal their identity so you can make things right. But there’s no need disclose your identity if you don’t want to.

Imagine living in a world where Accountable Anonymity prevails!

Encryption reliably obscures information, but that information is useless to the people you share it with if they can’t decrypt it. And you don’t want the wrong person decrypting it.

As long as you both have measurably reliable identity certificates, sharing encryption/decryption keys is easy and secure.

And Free.

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