2020-04-20 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

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Introductions

Attendees

• Sergey Minaev (Evernym) sergey.minaev@evernym.com

Related Calls and Announcements

• Identity Implementer Working Group call (Wiki Page)
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Move from Sovrin Foundation infrastructure
  • 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:  Unable to render Jira issues macro, execution error.
• Indy SDK
  • March: 
    • 1.15.0:
      • LibVCX improvements to reject proof and connection redirect
      • Bug fixes
  • April: no release
  • May:
    • Indy VDR into LibIndy
    • Indy Credx into LibIndy
• Aries Verifiable Credentials Registry (VCR)
  • https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr
  • Working on transitioning to Hyperledger - rename, required files, documentation
  • Deployed at Government of Canada
• Anoncreds 2.0
  • Mike: Creating a development plan in the Indy section of the wiki
  • Mike: Aries-Credx
  • Andrew: indy-credx
• Aries Shared Libraries
  • Aries Shared:
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      • Nearing release 1 - most work complete that was needed: Design doc, FFI, testing, CI / CD
      • As an Aries interface becomes standardized, will add that API layer
      • GitHub actions runs unit tests and basic integration tests
      • VON Network browser moved to Indy-VDR instead of LibIndy (no wallet needed because it is stateless)
        • Andrew working a refactor in a PR
    • indy-credx
      • https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
        • need to move to at least BC Gov repo
      • ACA-Py branch created that can do credential exchange
      • Next up: adding revocation 2.0 support
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
      • Shared features across indy-vdr and indy-credx
    • aries-credx
      • https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
        • 6 most common attribute encodings
        • Does not yet have anoncreds 1 attribute encoding.
      • Can make a non-revocable credential and create proofs.
        • Tagging will be moved to the KMS.
        • Mike will be working on revocation registry 2.0
      • Integrating upgraded PyO3 library
    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
      • Mike working on documentation and architecture as an Aries RFC (KMS architecture) and Ursa RFC (API)
        • PR is submitted: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/440
      • Mike and Cam's work aries-kms-mayaguez - repo?  features?
        https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-kms-rs
        • Persistence work allows plugging in any database engine.
        • Focus is using an external enclave.
  • Ursa 0.3.2
    • 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.

Other Business

• Move to GitHub Issues from JIRA for indy-sdk, indy-node, indy-plenum
  • Activate issues, update README to mention history
  • Possible: Migrate current, likely to happen JIRAs to Issues
• Migrate Jenkins to GitHub Actions (and perhaps Azure pipelines)
  • Plan started - Sovrin resource migration
  • Resources:  Wade Barnes (BC Gov), Thor Wolpert (BC Gov) for first step (Indy SDK/Linux)
• Revocation 2.0
  • Presentation (summary of what was presented on the Aries WG Call)
  • Feedback on the proposed design (see JIRA: Indy-2365)
  • Do we need to update/release indy-node if transactions are the same but data is new?

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