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VCTP: A Verifiable Credential-based Trust Propagation Protocol for Personal Issuers in Self-Sovereign Identity Platforms. (arXiv:2308.01539v1 [cs.CR])
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Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging identity system that facilitates
secure credential issuance and verification without placing trust in any
centralised authority. To bypass central trust, most SSI implementations place
blockchain as a trusted mediator by placing credential transactions on-chain.
Yet, existing SSI platforms face trust issues as all credential issuers in SSI
are not supported with adequate trust. Current SSI solutions provide trust
support to the officiated issuers (e.g., government agencies), who must follow
a precise process to …
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