Glossary
Data Wallet
A list of transactions that declare an entity as either an owner or a recipient of shared data. This list can be constructed using the Distributed Ledger and client’s secrets (keys to generate transactional identities).
This list will be stored on client’s premises or cloud infrastructure, not in MetaLocker.
Each client/company can have one or more data wallets (e.g. a wallet for each department).
Data wallets provide a secure view of all data owned or shared with the specific participant, ensure cryptographic integrity of data and provide detailed access history. Data wallets are interoperable and can be used outside of the ChainLocker platform.
Locker
A locker is a secure, persistent, bi-directional communication channel between two or more participants. A special type of locker with just one participant is called a unilocker.
Identity
Person’s uniqueness or individuality which defines or individualises him as a particular person and thus distinguishes him from others.
DID
Decentralised identifier. Similar to Digital Identity.
Verinym
Is a set of information leading to the real person.
Self-Sovereign Identity
SSI is an identity that is 100% owned and controlled by an individual or organization. No one else can read it, use it, turn it off, or take it away without its owner’s explicit consent.
Pairwise Identities
Each user is able to establish a specific DID for every relationship that they have. These are called “pairwise” identifiers and they are tremendously powerful. They allow an Identity Owner to keep their interactions with one party completely separate from any other party. The Identity Owner is the only person able to map and correlate their DIDs. This means that the relationship a person establishes with their bank is entirely separate to the one that they establish with a retailer, so neither bank nor retailer can correlate the Identity Owner’s activities with each of them.
Persona
A persona is defined by and created based on a collection of attributes used in a given context or a given relationship. Thus, a person may have a work-persona, home-persona, social persona, and others. Each of these personas is context-dependent and involves only the relevant subset of the core identity characteristics of that person. A person may have one or more personas.