Hyperledger Global Forum

Auditability, transparency, and security are essential values for a successful blockchain platform. Typically, the key considerations for enterprises when choosing a platform are the platform’s flexibility and scalability. While these factors are important, properly authenticating and validating the participating parties—whether they be part of the consensus protocol, maintaining a ledger, or just acting as a participant—is critical to the trustworthiness of any distributed ledger. In this presentation, Avesta Hojjati will review recent progress in authentication and validation for the permissioned and permissionless blockchain platforms from the perspective of a leading Certificate Authority. He will discuss the current challenges, use cases, and future work evolving around authenticating and validating entities on these platforms.