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Published inMar 2023
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Imran Bashir
Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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SSI-specific blockchain projects

In this section, we describe ASBCs that are developed specifically for facilitating an SSI ecosystem.

Hyperledger Indy, Aries, Ursa, and AnonCreds

The Hyperledger identity stack consists of Indy, Aries, Ursa, and AnonCreds, which are flexible and can interoperate with other layers in the SSI stack:

  • Hyperledger Indy was the Hyperledger foundation’s first blockchain framework that targeted identity use cases. It is a public permissioned blockchain specifically built for decentralized identity use cases. It can build and publish DIDs, VCs, and other similar elements of the blockchain.
  • Hyperledger Ursa grew out of Hyperledger Indy as a separate project, which consists of cryptography components of Hyperledger Indy. Now it’s a separate project, used by not only Indy but also other projects that need cryptography components. Ursa contains the cryptographic components to be used by Indy, Aries, and any other project...
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Mastering Blockchain - Fourth Edition
Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803241067

Author (1)

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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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