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title: "YouID — Verifiable Identity Controlled by You"
description: "YouID generates and manages Web- and Internet-scale verifiable identity that you control — issue your own digital ID card, encrypt mail, and set your own access rules."
url: urn:osdi:this
dateModified: 2026-10-29T21:08:59Z
language: en
---
Verifiable Digital Identity · WebID · NetID

# YouID

The *magic of being you.*

Verifiable identity, at Web and Internet scale, controlled entirely by you.

YouID is a simple — but powerful — system for generating, managing, and controlling Web- and Internet-scale verifiable identity that’s totally controlled by you. It makes you the master curator of your profile data and associated content indexes, without compromising your privacy.

[Create a Digital ID Card](https://id.myopenlink.net/youid) [How it fits the stack](urn:osdi:sitecompany/#identity)

## Your social media and other online profiles aren’t under your full control.

Increasingly, third parties are making decisions, theoretically on your behalf, based on their perception of you.

### The Solution

An industry standards-compliant application that enables you to issue your own identity card, in a manner that scales to both the World Wide Web and the Internet.

## Benefits

- Digitally identify yourself to email recipients, while enabling them to send you encrypted email that will only be readable by you.
- Eradicate spam and take full control over your email inboxes.
- Create your own rules for controlling access to resources — images, music, contacts, profile documents and more — that you share on the Web or Internet.

## Get YouID

Generate and manage your identity card from the browser or your phone.

[On the WebCreate an ID card →](https://id.myopenlink.net/youid) [Browser extensionFirefox →](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openlink-youid-ff/) [Browser extensionChrome →](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/openlink-youid/kbepkemknbihgdmdnfainhmiidoblhee) [MobileiOS App Store →](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youid-certificate-generator/id592737312?mt=8)

## Watch demos

Generating an identity card from an existing social profile.

[▶For Facebook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MF6DpZmvrI) [▶For LinkedIn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8rCAPfvIM0) [▶For Twitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOpJO_ygpw4)

## Where YouID sits

YouID is the [Identity & Trust layer](urn:osdi:sitecompany/#identity) of OpenLink’s architecture: cryptographically verifiable identity usable with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (DPKI), separating identity, identification, authentication and authorization instead of conflating them.

That same foundation carries cryptographically verifiable relationships, including On-Behalf-Of delegation — which is what lets an AI Agent demonstrate that it acts with the authority of a human, an organization, or another Agent.

## Be verifiably you

Issue your own identity card, and decide for yourself who gets to read what.

[Create a Digital ID Card](https://id.myopenlink.net/youid) [Contact Us](urn:osdi:sitecontact/)