Microsoft is developing an ION solution that allows users to identify themselves in order to gain access to certain information. According to the company , the decision is based on the bitcoin blockchain.

Since ION-managed identifiers are decentralized, if a user account is deleted on social networks, access to the services associated with the account will remain. All photos published in the profile will belong to the user, not the social network.

Due to the widespread use of Microsoft products in the corporate environment, the ION solution can potentially change the entire technology industry, believes co-founder of the Decentralized Identification (DID) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium, Christopher Allen.

“If corporate infrastructures integrate this solution into their products, they will have access to the DID,” he said.

Note that debugging key signing and software validation using public networks, including Bitcoin blockchains and Ethereum took Microsoft a year. Nevertheless, until the end of 2019, the ION developers are hoping to move from using the bitcoin test network to the main one.

Earlier in May, Microsoft, together with the American financial holding JPMorgan, improved the blockchain platform Quorum.

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