The Blind Man's Elephant: a product vision towards private identities by Andy | Devcon SEA

Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM

A short talk introducing the concepts of key properties we want to achieve in private ZK identities. Sparkling concepts like SSI and DIDs and why blockchains are the best way to ensure that. Finally it concludes with simple ZK and data-structure constructions and different alternatives that are seeking to provide this characteristics. In short, this is a lightning overview of the space, it's desired features and different approaches to achieve them. Speaker(s): Andy Skill level: Intermediate Track: Applied Cryptography Keywords: Privacy, Identity, ZKP, Use Cases, selective, disclosure Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/