Summary

This chapter presented a full introduction to SSI, focusing on its disruptive potential in digital identity management. SSI promotes user autonomy over personal data, using decentralized and cryptographic concepts, blockchain technology, and distributed ledger systems to build and maintain digital identities without relying on central authority. It emphasizes the need for encryption, hashing, public and private keys, and digital signatures for assuring data security and integrity within the SSI framework. The chapter also emphasized the connection of SSI principles with GDPR regulations, highlighting the need for data protection, consent management, and safe data processing. It also highlighted the empowerment, privacy preservation, and digital rights provided to individuals by SSI, as well as its possible uses in industries such as banking, healthcare, and the IoT.

In the next chapter, we dive into the privacy-by-design paradigm and its necessity and usage in the identity...