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Verification register Security & Identity

Living definition

What is did:webvh (did:web + Verifiable History)?

Decentralized Identity Security & Identity

As of
2026-07-23
Revision
2026-07-26.0
Method
v1.3.0

Definition

The term, in context

AI-assisted draft · approved dataset

did:webvh is a decentralized identifier method that extends web-hosted DIDs by publishing an append-only, cryptographically chained log of every change ever made to a DID document alongside the document itself. A resolver replays that history and checks the signature on each entry, so the state of an identifier is validated against its own provenance rather than trusted merely because it was fetched from a particular web server.

Live readiness status

Status as of the current dateline

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

As of 2026-07-23, verified readiness is 76 (claimed 85, reported 83, gap 9) — Critical evidence strength; current signals suggest Track; not yet.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for did:webvh (did:web + Verifiable History).

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-07-26.0
Hash
sha256:e2eb667df093db8819d579dff9aad51021b4977da85db2dfa82f63f9ed4e72b7
Approved
2026-07-26

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