2020-02-24 Indy Contributors Call

2020-02-24 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

  • Work updates and collaboration on projects

    • VDR

    • CredX

    • Rich Schemas

  • Future of Indy CI / CD

We intend to record this call.

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Introductions

Attendees

  • Name (Organization) <email>

  • @Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

  • Going forward, we will not be holding the AMER afternoon / APAC morning call

  • Identity Implementors Working Group call

    • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

  • Call to discuss techniques for supporting an Indy Network: Tuesday, February 25 at 3PM UTC

Release Status and Work Updates

  • Indy Node

    • February:

      • No formal release of Indy Node

      • New items available

        • Tool for detecting ZMQ network problems

        • Troubleshooting guide

    • March:

      • Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa (Kiva)

      • More "rich schema" objects

    • Future

      • Ubuntu 18.04 (Kiva)

        • Need to check additional dependencies: 

          Error rendering macro 'jira' : null

  • Indy SDK

    • February:

      • 1.15.0:

        • LibVCX improvements to reject proof and connection redirect

        • Bug fixes

  • Indy Catalyst

    • https://github.com/bcgov/indy-catalyst

    • Still working on performance improvements

    • Being deployed at Government of Canada

    • Migrating to Hyperledger Aries: plan is to moving to aries-verified-credential-registry

      • Needs more documentation

  • Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)

    • Implementing in an Aries Shared Library

  • Aries Shared Libraries

    • indy-vdr (@Andrew Whiteheadhttps://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-ledger-client

      • HTTP REST client that can be used to proxy ZMQ traffic

      • Next steps:

        • VDR Design Doc

        • Custom State-Proof Parser

          • Currently uses global state, should use an object (currently commented out in Indy-VDR)

          • Pair-programming session: BC.gov team, Adam B, Ev Team

        • FFI

        • Unit tests

        • Functional tests

        • Migrate repo to Hyperledger

          • First commit should point to previous history in indy-sdk

        • Integrate into existing LibIndy

          • Apply recent bug fixes to the new VDRI

      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, a new repo will be created for the indy-aries-vdri

        • Or a single aries-vdri with modules for each interoperable ledger

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

    • Aries-Shared-Util

      • Pack / Unpack

        • Lift-and-shift would be Indy specific, but refactoring for Aries-KMS could take a long time

      • Need a place for Rich Schemas functions → many will go to Aries Credx

    • Aries-KMS

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

        • Evolution from lox

        • Will include a default storage that is not a different implementation from the plugins

        • Hopes for a protype in February

      • Move the Indy wallet crate as a starting point → aries-kms-taiga

  • Ursa 0.3.2

    • Releasing this week?

    • Implements key exchange, so LibSodium hopefully is no longer required