Summary
- Update on the AnonCreds V2.0 Working Group
- AnonCreds on Cardano - Presentation by Rodolfo Miranda
- AnonCreds, JSON-LD, W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model Standard and the VCWG
- PRs
- Issues to discuss
- Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests
- Open Discussion
Recording of Call:
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Meeting Attendees
Stephen Curran (BC Gov / Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Rodolfo Miranda (RootsID)<rodolfo.miranda@rootsid.com>
Related Repositories:
- AnonCreds Specification: https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-spec/
- AnonCreds Methods Registry: https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-methods-registry
- AnonCreds Rust Open Source Code: https://github.com/hyperledger/anoncreds-rs
- Ledger Agnostic AnonCreds Project Page: https://github.com/orgs/hyperledger/projects/16
Meeting Preliminaries:
- Welcome and Introductions
- Announcements:
- AnonCreds V2.0 Working Group meetings started last week, and will meet every second Monday (next meeting is next Monday, March 6 at 10:00 Pacific / 19:00 Central Europe)
- This meeting will now be every second Monday as will, but at this time of 7:00 Pacific / 16:00 Central Europe.
- Any updates to the Agenda?
Agenda
Open Issue
- Update on the AnonCreds V2.0 Working Group
- AnonCreds on Cardano - Presentation by Rodolfo Miranda
- AnonCreds, JSON-LD, W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model Standard and the VCWG
- On step further in aligning with JSON-LD – signing the hash of the
@context
RDF tuple WITHOUT credential data. Good idea? - The VCWG Miami F2F – the resolution to the "Big Tent" issue.
- On step further in aligning with JSON-LD – signing the hash of the
- PRs for review and merging
- AnonCreds Rust 102 – handling combinations of Revoked/Non-Revoked presentations
- Timestamp
- Handling of both revocable and non-revocable credentials in a single presentation in all cases (bug in older implementation).
- ANDs and ORs in the spec. are wrong – need to update the specification.
- AnonCreds Rust 102 – handling combinations of Revoked/Non-Revoked presentations
- Issues to Discuss – notably, issues that are ready to be closed.
- Checkin: anoncreds-rs implementation progress, requests
- NodeJs wrapper performance issue: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar/issues/76
- Open Discussion:
- Ideas on how to link from the specification to the cryptographic operations?
- Discussion from several weeks ago – having an intermediary collect presentations from holders and then share them with the final verifier.
- Use Case:
- A bus is visiting a secure site for which all visitors must present ID.
- Site sends the bus operator a nonce.
- The bus operator uses the nonce in a presentation request flow with each passenger.
- Bus operator verifies all of the presentations.
- The Bus operator forwards all of the presentations to the site for verification.
- Questions:
- Is there value in the use of the nonce in this way?
- Does this alter the cryptography in any way?
- Terms of use of the data received by the bus operator?
- Discussion to be carried forward to next week.
- Use Case:
- Proposal: Should we move attribute encoding into the specification and out of the hands of the issuer?
- Approach:
- Deprecate the inclusion of encoded values from the "sign credential" process
- If passed, recalculate and error if they don't match the canonicalization algorithm
- If integer or string integer - leave as is
- Else stringify and hash
- In presentation – recalculate on use, as needed.
- Approach:
Future Calls
To Dos:
- Issue #137 added regarding further investigation into what happens to the issuance data flow nonce(s) by Belsy – definition completed, to be added to the spec. Stephen Curran
- Issue #140 should WQL be allowed in a Presentation Request?
- WQL is supported currently in the Indy SDK, but not in the Aries Frameworks
- Should it be in the specification?
- If so, in what form. From Sam Curren — don't call it WQL if we do include it – just describe it.
- Not used and it is not clear there is a good reason to support it.
- Complicates the specification and the implementation.
- Decision:
- Not supported in the specification – let's keep it out in this version
- Revocation Interval
- Approach to determine if the holder used an acceptable RevRegistry – see this Issue comment
- Who calls the AnonCreds method to get the Revocation Registry from the ledger for verification
- Verifier
or AnonCreds?
- Verifier
- To set "validation" to true/false based on the RevRegEntry timestamp in relation to the revocation interval? Presentation
- Key points:
- 1. an RevRegEntry is “current” from the time it is written, to the time of the next RevRegEntry
- 2. “within the interval” is based on when a RevRegEntry is “current” (see 1.), not its timestamp.
- 3. AnonCreds or the Verifier (calling AnonCreds) should calculate “within interval” (using 2.) and mark verification true if the RevRegEntry used by the Prover is within the interval, else false.
- Dangers:
- False-Negatives: If a strict "timestamp used is between from, to" and not based on when a RevReg is "current" (per 2.), we will get "not verified" incorrectly.
- False-Positives: If we don't do any checking of the timestamp and the interval, the holder could incorrectly use an old RevRegEntry.
- Dangers:
- 4. General point: AnonCreds should return both a summary (true/false) and if false, additional data about why it was false.
- Decision – add an optional `at_from_ts` set of entries, one per NRP, that AnonCreds can use for determining if the holder_ts is within the Presentation Request interval.
- Backwards Compatibility
- PRs in (#82, #105) that seem to change public data structures – ones that are handled outside of AnonCreds and/or by two or more participants (issuer, holder, verifier)
- We want to retain compatibility with existing data – credentials that have been issued and the published AnonCreds objects on which they rely.
- That extends to business logic – e.g. the handling of the objects not just by AnonCreds, AnonCreds Methods and Aries Frameworks, but also by business applications built on Aries.
- Suggestion:
- Include in the specification a statement about backward compatibility
- Perhaps this is what Ankur had planned to do?
- Formalize what data structures will be expected by AnonCreds
- This is being done throughout the specification and verified against the current implementation.
- As needed support sending and receiving data in "old" and "new" formats, but (for now) always sending "old" formats.
- TBD if there are any such cases.
- Include in the specification a statement about backward compatibility
Action items
- Adding support for W3C Format AnonCreds to the anoncreds implementation and the spec.
- Issue -- should "encoded" generation be handled by the Issuer or within AnonCreds?
- Formalize the encoding in the specification
- Transition to "encoding in AnonCreds" ASAP
- Links to be referenced in the spec and used where needed: