Authentication and session management

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• Since IC is a permissionless blockchain, dapps cannot be trusted.
• Dapps must make authenticated calls to their own canisters as well as shared infrastructure canisters, for instance the IC Ledger canister.

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• Secure and private interactions. Internet Identity derives a new identity for each dapp instead of issuing a single global identity. This design protects users from malicious dapps and makes interactions harder to trace.
• Cryptography-based session management. When a user connects to a dapp, it creates a new session public/private key pair, which Internet Identity certifies with a combination of WebAuthn and threshold signing.

Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable Credentials is an emerging W3C standard and a solution to the ever increasing problem of forged physical and digital identities. It is the technical term for a list of identity attributes that are cryptographically secured.

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