2024-01-15 AnonCreds Working Group Meeting

Summary

Time: 7:00 Pacific / 16:00 Central Europe
Call Link: https://zoom.us/j/97954159540?pwd=WWk3WmQ3MVh1SXBYZGVreGl0QllGdz09

Recording:

Notices: 

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Meeting Attendees

@Stephen Curran (BC Gov / Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Related Specifications and Repositories:

• AnonCreds v1.0:

  • The v1.0 specification is published here: https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-spec/

  • The Working Group uses this GitHub repository to manage the specification: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-spec

  • The AnonCreds Methods Registry: https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-methods-registry

  • The v1.0 implementation in Rust is here: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs

  • The v1.0 implementation is dependent on this Rust CL Signatures implementation: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-clsignatures-rs

• AnonCreds v2.0

  • The initial framework for the v2.0 specification repository is here: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-spec-v2

  • The v2.0 implementation in Rust is here: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-v2-rs

  • Underlying AnonCreds v2.0 are cryptographic libraries in Hyperledger Labs Agora

Meeting Preliminaries:

• Welcome and Introductions

• Announcements:

• Any updates to the Agenda?

Agenda

• AnonCreds in W3C Format - Finalize Framework/Interop Designs

  • Presentation

  • Final design, interop assumptions

  • Attachments Format for Issue Credential v2 protocol:

    • Proposal to use new format for issuing: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/809 (based on https://hackmd.io/JEIOxf_ETnaX33kTIu7YJw?view)

    • Test Vectors Repo: https://github.com/TimoGlastra/anoncreds-w3c-test-vectors

  • Attachment Format to use for Present Proof:

    • DIF Presentation Exchange - Aries RFC 0510 - discuss impact.

  • Out of scope

    • Credential Proposal message

  • ACA-Py work design document HackMD

    • Impacts on Issuer, Verifier, Holder

    • Possibility – a plugin for the new attachment format

  • AFJ work:

• Deferred: AnonCreds Roadmap 2024

  • Hyperledger TOC Requirement for projects to submit an Annual Report

  • Currently working on the report

  • Looking to have a discussion about the Roadmap at next Monday's meeting

  • Possible List:

    • AnonCreds W3C VC Format

    • Finalized v1.0 Spec.

    • AnonCreds v2.0

      • Combine with other efforts around Data Integrity Proofs and BBS+ Signatures.

      • Combine ZKP/non-ZKP Revocation implementation (ALLOSAUR and StatusList2021)

      • W3C VC Format

      • Hyperledger Labs Agora

      • Draft Specification v2.0

      • Experiment with Post Quantum PS Signatures

• Open Discussion

Future Calls

To Dos:

Action items

• Links to be referenced in the spec and used where needed:

  • From Will Abramson : https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.186.5994&rep=rep1&type=pdf

  • From Will Abramson : https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/blob/c761c583b1e01c1e9d3ceda2b03b35336fdc8cc1/text/anoncreds-protocol/README.md

W3C AnonCreds + AFJ Demo

• Aries Framework JavaScript repo: https://github.com/DSRCorporation/aries-framework-javascript/tree/w3c-demo-poc

• Anoncreds-RS library, Anoncreds-NodeJs, and Anoncreds-Shared are built from the branch: https://github.com/DSRCorporation/anoncreds-rs/tree/anoncreds-wc3-wrappers

  • Use main implementation (not included, dropping of mapping  and encoding  changes)

• Update AFJ @hyperledger/anoncreds-nodejs  and `@hyperledger/anoncreds-shared` dependencies to use locally built packages