Decentralized Truststore A Match Made in Blockchain

Growing digital transformation across industries is pushing the use of digital certificates widespread. This is leading to new authentication standards like OAuth [1], JWE/T [2] in addition to legacy standards like SAML, TLS, SSL, SOAP and irrespective of the authentication standard, utilization digital certificates are imperative. These new flexible authentication standards are making B2B integrations and collaboration easier than ever. There are numerous processes/tools to manage digital certificate life cycle within an organization, still there is no solution to manage it centrally across different organizations. This paper proposes a solution utilizing blockchain to centrally manage digital certificates life cycle across organizations [10].