OpenLink YouID

OpenLink YouID

YouID selector.

What is OpenLink YouID?
OpenLink YouID is a tool that allows you to generate verifiable credentials (digital certificates) from HTML documents, profile knowledge graphs, RDF documents, and blockchains. It provides self-sovereign identity authenticity and leverages existing PKI and DPKI for authentication and identity verification.
Merlin
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Users: 67 ▼ -5
Version: 1.6.9 (Last updated: 2023-03-18)
Creation date: 2019-02-28
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • tabs
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
  • *://*/*
  • file:///*/*
  • https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token
Size: 2.20M
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Summary

A tool for generating verifiable credentials, tokenized in a digital certificate, from a wide variety of profile data sources that includes:

[1] Any HTML document over which you have read-write privileges -- this includes profile pages from Github, Twitter, Linktree, Instagram, Quora, and many others

[2] Profile Knowledge Graphs deployed as structured data islands embedded in HTML

[3] Pure RDF documents (Turtle, JSON-LD, RDF-XML, others)

[4] Bitcoin or Ethereum Blockchains -- without incurring an gas, proof-of-work, or proof-of-stake related fees

Following installation, you will be able to take advantage of the following benefits:

[1] Generate verifiable credentials (digital certificates and their associated private keys) directly from you browser to a secure file.

[2] Enjoy self-sovereign identity authenticity that scales to both the Internet & Web e.g., sending digitally-signed emails that verify your identity to mail recipients

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Safety
Risk impact

OpenLink YouID is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install OpenLink YouID if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

OpenLink YouID is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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