- From: Herbert Snorrason <odin@anarchism.is>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:36:09 +0000
- CC: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:36:40 UTC
On fim 5.jún 2014 00:08, Dave Lampton wrote: > IMO, identity verification (authentication) *can be avoided altogether* in > many cases if (for example) the "money" (in whatever form) is digitally > "attached to" or "owned by" an account somewhere and that relationship is > simply made public. Authentication is not the issue here. Authorisation is. Transactions happen by making changes to accounts, and in order to make those changes you have to check that whoever is making the change has permission to do that. An account either is or connects to an identity, and using the account requires authorisation of some sort. With greetings, Herbert Snorrason
Received on Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:36:40 UTC