Ethereum Foundation Support Spruce's Ethereum-powered decentralized sign-in system


A decentralized identity software
company Spruce is working on providing a decentralized user identity
verification system that will be a secure sign-in using Ethereum. This proposed
system for secure sign-in is supported by Ethereum Foundation (EF) and Ethereum
Name Service (ENS) with the expectation that it will enhance user experience
with Ethereum.
As per the declaration done on 13th
September, Spruce is willing to give full control of users to manage their own
online identities. This would serve as an alternative that will help everyone
to hand over one’s data to Google, Apple, and Facebook. Spruce is planning to
work closely with ENS and the EF to ensure that its solution is compatible with
existing standards used throughout the Ethereum ecosystem. The company assure
that “the final result will be friendly to implementers while remaining
vendor-neutral.” The team highlighted that this standardized workflow will
enable the Ethereum users “to use a digital identity that they fully control to
seamlessly access the web,” Spruce added that it has already started to deliver
a best-practices survey, user research, specification drafts, and reference
implementation.
In July a proposal was submitted by EF and ENS for encouraging developers and software firms to introduce a full sign-in package that uses an open standard for access delegation Oauth. Based on this proposal Spruce was selected.
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Spruce highlights that the Ethereum
ecosystem already has more than “‘tens of millions” of active wallet users
every month, login into their wallets using cryptographic keys for transactions
and community governance. The firm said “The security of these wallets has been
proven across billions of dollars of digital assets at stake — not theoretical
security, but real tests in production. These secure wallets can also be used
to sign in to Web2 services.”
Another firm working on a similar app:
In July, as reported Numio the crypto
payments and identity management platform, built an app that enables users to
verify their identity to web services without sending any sensitive
information. Numio’s system uses zero-knowledge proofs to cryptographically
verify the data.

Indrani bose
CBW - External Analyst
INDIA