2020-04-08-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Summary:

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

Apr 8, 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>

• @Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

• @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

• @Sam Curren  (Independent) <telegramsam@gmail.com>

• @g (EPFL) <gaurav.narula@epfl.ch>

• @Daniel Hardman (Evernym) <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• IIW April 28-30 Will happen, in digital form.

Related Meetings Review

• Ursa - 

• Semantics - Next meeting: 04/14 (Tuesday)

• DID UX Call - Active?

• SSI in IoT WG

• Indy Contributors - @Richard Esplin  transitioning to @Stephen Curran  (Mon) - Update on active work - covered below

• Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) - Riley Hughes on status of Sovrin Mainnet

• DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - @Sam Curren (Mon) - Continued discussion of zero round trip (0rtt) vs. Out of Band/DID Exchange connections.

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  
  

• Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

  • A harness for testing two or more agent implementations using RFC-driven BDD test scripts

  • POC evolving into a test harness

  • Help Wanted: Creating a backchannel integration for aries-framework-dotnet

• Aries Shared Components:

  • indy-vdr (@Andrew Whitehead )  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr

    • Remaining work: Wrap up for a 1.0 release

    • Integrating into LibIndy in a separate branch, goal is to release in April/May

  • indy-credx (@Andrew Whitehead ) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx

  •  indy-shared-rs (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-shared-rs

    • Shared code for indy-vdr and indy-credx

    • Currently utils for: ed25519, hash, wql

  • aries-credx (@Mike Lodder ) https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs

    • Currently just claim encoding routines

    • Future TBD

  • Aries-KMS/Storage (@Mike Lodder @Andrew Whitehead @Camilo Parra)

    • Mike's presentation in Aries WG A

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

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

    • Next steps likely from @Mike Lodderand @Andrew Whitehead - others interested and have time?

• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (BC Gov)

  • Revocation based on anoncreds 1.0 has been merged into master and will be in the next release.

    • Tests happening with Streetcred and esatus wallets - some success 

    • Help Wanted - indy-vdr based Tails Server

  • Tracing based on RFC 0034 and trace output visualization. Goal is "jurisdiction-scale" issuance.

• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go

  • Issue credential protocol with BDD tests.

  • Continuing work on out-of-band and present proof protocols.

• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)

  • Trying to resolve dependabot vulnerabilities in ruby gems used by the aries-sdk-ruby and example Rails projects

• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)

• Aries-StaticAgent-Python

• Aries-Toolbox

• Aries-SDK-Java

  • Initial PR

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

  • Started regular meetings: Framework JS Meetings

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

• Ursa

Agenda

• Intro and project updates (10 min - @Stephen Curran)

• Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - @Stephen Curran )

• Mediator Demo (15 min - @g)

  • Repo for demo: https://github.com/dedis/aries-mediator

  • Slides

• RFC 0034 Tracing - summary, implementation in ACA-Py and Demo (20 min @Ian Costanzo)

  • PRs: Tracing, Trace Reporting

• Issue Credential v2.0 Continued (15 min - @Stephen Curran )

• Open Discussion / Next Week Topics / Wrap Up (10 min - @Stephen Curran)

Next Week

• Requests?

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

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