2019-11-06-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Owned by Richard Esplin
Last updated: Nov 06, 2019
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Summary:

  • Work updates
  • Payments in Aries
  • Hardware enclaves

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

(7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

  • Name (Employer) <email>
  • Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
  • John "Jack" Callahan (Veridium) <jcallahan@veridiumid.com>
  • Matt Raffel (Kiva) <mattr@kiva.org>
  • Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
  • Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
  • Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
  • Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
  • Cam Parra (Kiva) <camilop@kiva.org>
  • Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
  • Brent Zundel (Evernym) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
  • Oskar van Deventer (TNO) <oskar.vandeventer@tno.nl>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

  • Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah - Dates Confirmed, Food Sponsors welcome!
  • Webinar on peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST, ssimeetup.org
  • Proposal to renumber RFC 0289

Related Calls

  • Previous Aries Working Group calls
  • Identity Implementors Working Group call
    • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • Works, and ready for test contributions
  • Aries-KMS
    • Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams / aries-kms (might change the repo name)
    • cam's rust aries-kms (just old code in repo right now, once I add more to my RFC I will focus my attention to adding code here)
    • SQLite as the default wallet.
    • aries-ams-sqlite is archived
    • Need to migrate Postgres wallet plugin from Indy to aries-ams-postgres
  • Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
    • Static Peer DIDs in aries-vdri as the default implementation
    • aries-vdri-peer is archived
    • Ken's POC
  • Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Release 0.3.5 has been tagged and is on PyPi - caching/performance issues
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy)
    • Weekly planning notes (2019-11-05)
    • Wrapping up 0.1.0 release and starting on 0.1.1.
    • https://didcomm.org is now used as the prefix for message types (replaces did:sov:....)
    • Successful experimentation on the possibility of exposing additional bindings (C, WASM).
      • (We currently have Go and REST.)
    • You can play with the framework by running BDD tests (make bdd-test) or with the OpenAPI (swagger) interface (See README).
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
  • Aries-StaticAgent-Python
  • Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
  • Aries-SDK-Java
  • Aries-SDK-JavaScript
    • DIF people interested in implementing a Java Script library that might share some of the functionality of the Aries SDK. We need to keep that in mind.
  • Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • Migration from LibIndy
    • Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
    • LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
  • Ursa 3.0 release in November
    • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
    • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
    • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials

RFC Progress

Other Business

  • Payments in Aries
    • Currently have the payment decorator defines how to request payment and prove that payment happened (same information as the W3C Web Payments standard).
      • Protocol gap in actually making the payment. Should be pluggable (application agnostic).
    • Payments are defined as part of credential issuance and presentation
    • Top level concept like KMS?
  • Using hardware enclaves (Mike L.)
    • Agent KMS Considerations: 
    • Steve M. has played a lot with the Apple enclave and can help.
    • Tension between security of a hardware enclave, and the portability promises of SSI.
      • Assumption is that any key put into an enclave cannot come out.
    • Ursa will provide an interface for interacting with an enclave (abstract the complexity).
      • Needs flexibility: mobile enclave, enterprise HSM

Future Topics

Action items

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