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Jill Carlson
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With the rise of #DeFi the idea of decentralized digital credit scoring is getting more attention. The following is my 201-level reading list on decentralized ID and reputation for those interested in the idea.

Grab your Saturday morning coffee and get ready to open some tabs...
Start with New Directions in Cryptography by @WhitfieldDiffie and @MartinHellman2 - at a minimum read the intro on the division of problems into those of privacy and those of authentication.

ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publi…
Then move to the Sybil Attack by John Douceur for the high level on identity problems in large scale peer-to-peer systems

nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/th…
Whose Name Is It Anyway? by Daniel Wetzner and the proposal for a Uniform Resource Identity is well worth having to request the download

researchgate.net/publication/34…

Or you can read the summary here

dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/06/ieee-i…
Security Without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete by @chaumdotcom. In particular pay attention to the sections on credentials.

cs.ru.nl/~jhh/pub/secse…
Decentralized Anonymous Credentials by @CryptoGPS, @secparam, and @matthew_d_green is a must-read. Reading this paper I felt the same level of jaw-drop, mind-blown 🤯 as I did the first time I read the Bitcoin whitepaper.

eprint.iacr.org/2013/622.pdf
Social Secret Sharing by @isislovecruft and @hdevalence may feel unrelated at first to the topic of decentralized credit scoring, but ideas and concepts from one decentralized reputation system are certainly applicable as we consider building another.

patternsinthevoid.net/hyphae/hyphae.…
I'd be remiss if I didn't include the ERC 725 standard doc in here written by @feindura which I think is the closest we've gotten today to conceiving of a decentralized, DeFi-compatible reputation and credit-scoring system.

github.com/ethereum/eips/…
I haven't covered much directly on credit here I know. This list is biased towards the gaps in my own knowledge which are mostly on the systems side. If that's your area of interest see A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business by Rowena Olegario.
Finally, here's a great @NPR piece on the origin story of the name "Sybil"!

npr.org/2011/10/20/141…
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