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Darknetian is my field notes for an oddly austere world: systems, security, standards, and the messy reality between what’s true and what’s provable.

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blog • dns-aid • 28 min read

Agent Identity Without a New Authority — Digital Wallets and the SAN

Republic of Korea's OpenDID and France's mDL ship a TPM-anchored credential flow. DNS-AID and ANS can ride that substrate without inventing a new registry, central root, or hardware-wallet assumption with some tinkering.

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Three-pane diagram contrasting trust roots — centralized registry / sovereign issuer + hardware wallet / DNS + DNSSEC + DANE + x509_san_dns — with the third pane labelled "the substrate that already exists"