2020-05-04 Indy Contributors Call

Owned by Stephen Curran
Last updated: May 04, 2020
3 min read

Summary

Planned:

  • IIW Update
  • Work updates:
    • Indy VDR
    • Indy Credx
    • Aries Credx
    • Aries Storage
  • Migrating from JIRA to GitHub Issues
  • Migrating from Jenkins to GitHub Actions (or Azure Pipelines)
  • Update on Revocation 2.0 - Merkle Tree Processing Tech Spike
  • If time: BBS+ ZKPs and Indy

The call was recorded is available here: 20200504 Indy Contributors Call

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Introductions

Attendees

  • Stephen Curran  (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
  • Brent Zundel (Evernym, Inc.) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

  • Identity Implementer Working Group call (Wiki Page) - every 2nd Thursday

Release Status and Work Updates

  • Move from Sovrin Foundation infrastructure - Wade Barnes
    • Move from Jenkins to GitHub actions
      • Sovrin Foundation Jenkins machines are going away
      • Sovrin resource migration
      • #cicd discussion "Indy CI / CD Migration" (in #cicd use menu item "Discussions" to see/get to the discussion)
    • Move repo.sovrin.org → Hyperledger Artifactory for all except Sovrin Foundation specific artifacts
  • Indy Node
    • April: no release
    • May:
      • Replacing Indy Crypto with Ursa (Kiva)
      • More "rich schema" objects
      • Ubuntu 20.04 (Kiva)
        • Need to check additional dependencies: 
          Error rendering macro 'jira' : null
  • Indy SDK
    • April: no release
    • May/June:
      • Indy VDR into LibIndy
      • Indy Credx into LibIndy
  • Aries Shared Libraries
    • 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
        • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
        • VON Network browser moved to Indy-VDR - branch
        • BC Gov created a tails server based on Indy-VDR - with dynamic ledger access
      • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
        • ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange with indy-credx
        • Next up: adding revocation 2.0 support
        • Integrating upgraded PyO3 library
      • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
        • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
        • pack/unpack on Ursa (not libsodium)
        • home for revocation support?  Or at least shared set membership proof handling?
        • Move to Hyperledger move this week...
      • aries-credx
      • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
    • Ursa
      • BBS+ added
      • 0.3.5 pending, plus new additions

Meeting Topics

Future Calls

Next call:

Future:

  • Requirements questions:
    • IS-1099: anoncreds.prover_get_credentials_for_proof_req should return per-credential timestamp
      • Should we allow duplicate credentials from the same issuer?

Action items

  • PR to RFC #0019 to compare pack/upack to msgpack (Sergey)
  • Review the 61 cases of "unsafe" libindy calls and figure out if they are justified.


Call Recording