2019-11-06-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)
Summary:
Work updates
Payments in Aries
Hardware enclaves
Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.
Date
Nov 6, 2019 (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!
Please RSVP
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)
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)
Updated to 0.0.6 at RubyGems https://rubygems.org/gems/aries-sdk-ruby
Rails sample project using aries-sdk-ruby at https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails
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)
HIPEs/RFCs
Next HIPEs/RFCs for
encoding
mapping
credential definition
Node implementation of
context (merged)
schema in progress
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
Rich Schema RFC headed to an APPROVED status, Troy had some comments on how the Link Secrets tie to W3C spec.
New RFC: Trust-over IP Overview RFC 0289
Proposal for an "RFC 2"
Sergey thinks we need an overview of how the many protocols fit together.
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
Next call
Hubs vs Agents
Progress on POCs for Core Libraries: Aries-KMS, Aries-VDRI
Other:
Status and future of wallet query language
IOT best practices (@Robert Mitwicki, @Adam Burdett , @Lohan Spies )
DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)