2020-02-12-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

Feb 12, 2020 (12PM Los Angeles, 3PM New York, Tuesday at 7AM Sydney)

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Attendees

• Name (Organization) <email>

• @George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>

• @Sven Hammann (ETH Zurich) <sven.hammann.90@gmail.com>

• @Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>

• @Paul Knowles (Dativa) <paul.knowles@dativa.com>

• @Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>

• @Drummond Reed (Evernym) <drummond.reed@evernym.com> 

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Hyperledger Diversity, Civility, and Inclusivity Survey

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - No calls since the last Aries meeting.

• Semantics - yesterday's call: Handling big data in an Indy Credential - workaround - Hashlink. Link to Paper

• DID UX Call - Slack/Mailing list - details in the shared document as well minutes and additional information, currently focus on Purpose Based Services

  • F2F Meeting meetup

• SSI in IoT WG

• Indy Contributors - @Richard Esplin (Mon) - Notes

• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) 

• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific 

• W3C DID Working Group F2F meeting in Amsterdam (Jan 29-31)

  • Slides from the F2F meeting (200+)

  • SSI Meetup Webinar by Drummond Reed & Markus Sabadello with a full recap of the F2F meeting

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite

  • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.

• Aries Shared:

  • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-ledger-client

    • Basically usable

    • Remaining work: Design doc, FFI, and testing

    • Will migrate repo to Hyperledger

    • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer

  • indy-aries-anoncreds / indy-creds → indy-credx

    • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs

  • Aries-Shared-Util

    • Pack / Unpack

    • Not started yet

  • Aries-KMS

    • Will support multiple approaches

    • Mike and Cam's aries-core-rs → aries-kms-(placeholder)
      https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-core-rs

    • aries-kms-taiga: evolution of the Indy wallet crate as a starting point

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)

  • 0.4.2 released

• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go

  • Demonstrated in-browser WASM along with mediator during the morning call.

• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)

  • Added DID/Verkey sign_and_submit to aries_sdk_ruby and published new gem (0.0.8)

  • Created aries-rails-docker experiment that support Rails 4 with Indy 1.8.1 on Heroku & Dokku

• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)

• Aries-StaticAgent-Python

• Aries-Toolbox

  • Added basic message admin

  • Working on a getting started video

• Aries-SDK-Java

• Aries-Framework-JavaScript / Aries-SDK-JavaScript

  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings

• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)

  • Encoding object HIPE and RFC are now available for review

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-hipe/pull/154

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/418 

• Ursa

  • 0.3.1 release in January

  • 0.3.2 released in February, includes key exchange methods (can replace libsodium)

Agenda

• Issue PR Game: Can we merge this? (15 min): 

• Named states and coprotocols (30) Daniel Hardman

• Chained Credentials RFC 104 (20 min) - Paul/Jan

• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics

Next Week

Future Topics

• DIF Interop Project - Project is proceeding, connect the communities at IIW

• DKMS status

• Credential Fraud:  Example how in ACA-Py to verify same link secret across multiple credentials in presentation

• Schema interop - how to reused schema across different networks @Robert Mitwicki(RFC in progress)

• Using WebSocket as a way to communicate back to the mobile/desktop wallet (Agent (services or user) as a proxy for communication between service and digital wallet) @Robert Mitwicki 

• Formal protocol verification techniques

  • https://github.com/SvenHammann90/SSI/blob/master/RWOT_9/Topic_Paper_RWOT.md (using Tamarin)

  • https://github.com/johncallahan/needham_shroeder_spin (non-Aries example using SPIN/Promela)

• What's left for DID Exchange protocol?

  • Some discussion in: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/366

Action items

Call Recording