2020-06-03-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)

Owned by Sam Curren
Last updated: Jun 06, 2020
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Summary:

  • Issue Game: Can we close this?
  • OOB For Invitations
  • Web site Auth (SIOP?)
  • Aries Import/Export

Note: This call is being recorded.

Date

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

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Attendees

  • Sam Curren (Indicio) <sam@indicio.tech>
  • George Aristy (SecureKey) <george.aristy@securekey.com>
  • Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
  • Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
  • @Keith Smith (IBM) <bksmith@us.ibm.com>
  • Drummond Reed (Evernym) <drummond.reed@evernym.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

Related Meetings Review

  • Ursa - 
  • Semantics - Next meeting: Never - transitioning to be in the ToIP Foundation - see RocketChat channel for details and how to join the successor group
  • DID UX Call - Active?
  • SSI in IoT WG
  • Indy Contributors - Monday - How to namespace indy networks. Networks of networks? did:indy:?
  • Identity WG / Identity WG Implementer calls (Wed / Thurs) 
  • DIF DIDComm WG - Monday's at Noon US/Pacific - Sam Curren (Mon) - DID Doc services, etc.

Upcoming Releases and Work Updates

  • Aries Protocol Test Suite
    • One agent under test
    • Issue, credential, and proof tests are merged.
  • Aries Agent Test Harness
    • Test compatibility between any two agents
    • Continued evolution of the test cases, documentation, process
    • Real Soon Now: Bounty for implementing the Aries Framework .NET backchannel (and maybe others)
    • https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness​
  • Aries Shared:
    • Aries Shared:
      • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
        • Nearing release 0.6(?) - most work complete that was needed: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
          • CI - GitHub actions runs unit tests and basic integration tests
          • CD not there
          • No design doc, but crate docs
          • Rich Schema merged and behind a feature flag
          • Refactoring PR not merged - cleanup, internal simplification, crate docs
      • indy-credx - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-credx
        • Experimental ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx
      • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
        • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
        • pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
      • aries-credx
      • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
  • Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov)
    • Release 0.5.1 is on PyPi.
    • Revocation support added and tested with Streetcred and esatus Mobile Agents; major/minor version handling
  • Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
    • Implementing the Out-Of-Band protocol
    • Implementing issue-credential and present-proof protocols
    • Edge agent in work based aries-framework-go using WASM with support for DIDs, VCs and DIDComm support being added
  • Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
    • Release last week for Aries compatibility with ACApy and LibVCX (RFC 0094)
  • Aries-StaticAgent-Python
  • Aries-Toolbox
  • Aries-SDK-Java
  • Aries-Framework-JavaScript
  • Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
    • Some work has been done to support the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification
  • Aries-MobileAgent-Xamarin (Aries MAX)
  • Ursa
    • 0.4.0 scheduled for late March
      • Improved hash to curve algorithm
      • Updates to AMCL wrapper
    • To replace libsodium, need to have a replacement for the anoncrypt / authcrypt sealed box for pack / unpack.
      • Can be done in Ursa with two steps, but might add as a single function call.
    • Revocation 2.0 Support - new approach: Non-Revocation Range Merkle Tree - Ursa RFC here
      • Performance looks good at 1M creds/registry - 16M might be possible.

Agenda

  • Intro and project updates (10 min - )
  • Issue Game: Can we close this? (15 min - )
    • PR 437 - Service Decorator Requirements for Multi-message Protocols
    • PR 452 - Remove Redundant State
    • PR 482 - Coprotocols
    • PR 486 - Present Proof v2
  • OOB Community Support (Stephen Curran) - Presentation
  • Web Auth Community Poll (SIOP?) (Sam Curren)
    • DID spec just became clear enough to make this happen.
      • Authentication Section of DID Doc
    • Not a fan of 'prove to id provider'
    • WebAuthn / OIDC - mostly bound to identity provider
    • Symmetry important (user challange website, etc)
    • Manifold - PicoLabs
  • Aries Import/Export Minimum Requirements (Sam Curren)
  • Open Discussion / Next Week Topics / Wrap Up (5 min - )

Next Week

  • Requests?

Future Topics

Action items

Call Recording

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