Decentralized Identifiers

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are self-generated and self-owned identifiers used to uniquely identify entities without recourse to a central authority. DIDs are universally discoverable — they are URIs that resolve to a DID Document containing information such as public key material and service endpoints for the owning entity.

In the context of Decentralised Web Apps (DWAs), DIDs are used to authenticate individuals (or organisations, devices, etc.) as well as provide and endpoints for messaging and data storage (DWN).

Supported DID methods

For simplicity of adoption, Credibil only supports did:web and did:key methods. While there are plans to add support for did:dht, developers are free to use other DID methods, with the caveat that it should be supported by participating DWA parties.

See https://github.com/credibil/did for more detail on DID resolution and document creation.