2019-11-20-A Aries Working Group Call (US morning)

Summary:

• Work updates
• Aries crypto service RFC

Note: This call is Recorded. Recordings posted at the bottom of the page.

Date

20 Nov 2019 (7AM Los Angeles, 10AM New York, 3PM London, 18H Moscow)

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Attendees                                                                                                                                                            

• Name (Employer) <email>
• Troy Ronda (SecureKey) <troy.ronda@securekey.com>
• Stephen Curran (CloudCompass/BC Gov) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Marvin Berstecher (esatus AG) <m.berstecher@esatus.com>
• Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
• Ajay Jadhav (AyanWorks) <ajay@ayanworks.com>
• Ken Ebert (Sovrin Foundation) <ken@sovrin.org>
• Robert Mitwicki
• Mike Lodder(Sovrin Foundation) <mike@sovrin.org>
• Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Wolfgang Lamot (difacturo GmbH) <wolfgang.lamot@difacturo.com>
• @kamlesh Nagware (Snapper Future Tech) <kamlesh.nagware@snapperfuturetech.com>
• Bernardus Kurnia (Bina Nusantara University) <michael.bernardus@gmail.com>

Welcome / Introductions

Announcements

• Aries Workshop/Connectathon December 3-5 in Provo, Utah - Dates Confirmed, Food Sponsors welcome!
  • Please RSVP
• Webinar on peer DIDs Nov 21 at 1 PM MST, ssimeetup.org
• Hyperledger edX course launched this week - Introduction to Hyperledger Sovereign Identity Blockchain Solutions: Indy, Aries & Ursa

Related Calls

• Previous Aries Working Group calls
• Identity Implementors Working Group call
  • Main place to get project updates, release status, and announcements.

Release Status and Work Updates

• Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Progress in making it work with the LibVCX Dummy Cloud Agent (support for mediators).
  • Ready for people to contribute additional tests.
• Aries-KMS
  • Moving Indy Wallet crate into aries-ams / aries-kms (might change the repo name)
  • cam's rust aries-kms (just old code in repo right now, once I add more to my RFC I will focus my attention to adding code here)
    
  • Working on aries-kms RFC 
• Verifiable Data Registry Interface library
  • Ken's POC
• Other Core Libraries (pack / unpack)
• Aries-CloudAgent-Python (bc.gov) - Latest is Release 0.3.5 on PyPi
• Aries-Framework-Go (Troy) #aries-go
  • Weekly planning notes (2019-11-19).
  • Working on mediator/routing, WebSocket transport, WASM, browser primitives, credential issuance.
  • Mentioned last week on the B call
    • 0.1.0 released (mentioned last week on the B call).
    • Project description posted in README.
    • You can play with the framework by running BDD tests or with the OpenAPI (swagger) interface.
    • Next up: credential issuance (and continuing with W3C verifiable credentials), WebAssembly & WebSockets.
• Aries-SDK-Ruby (Jack)
  • Updated to 0.0.6 at RubyGems https://rubygems.org/gems/aries-sdk-ruby
  • Rails sample project using aries-sdk-ruby at https://github.com/johncallahan/aries-rails
• Aries-Framework-DotNet (Tomislav)
• Aries-StaticAgent-Python - Now up to 0.6.1; more details
• Aries-Toolbox
  • Moving repos to HyperLedger's Github Org.
  • ACApy plugin for supported admin protocols.
• Aries-SDK-Python - Wrapper from JeromK and SBCA?
• Aries-SDK-Java
• Aries-SDK-JavaScript
  • PR for moving Indy NodeJS wrapper repo has been merged into https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-framework-javascript
  • Repo is ready for contributors to start picking next tasks
  • Need to rename existing repo - "aries-framework-javascript" to "aries-sdk-javascript" and create a new repo as "aries-framework-javascript"
    • Also need to add following people as maintainers to both repos.
    • Jakub Koci , Matt Raffel , Ajay Jadhav , Keith Smith
  • Regular weekly zoom calls to be scheduled from this Friday. Will share the details on Rocket Chat.
  • DIF people interested in implementing a Java Script library that might share some of the functionality of the Aries SDK. We need to keep that in mind.
• Rich Schemas and W3C Verifiable Credentials (Brent & Ken)
  • HIPEs/RFCs
    • overview https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0250-rich-schemas
    • context https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0249-rich-schema-contexts
    • schema processing feedback https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0281-rich-schemas 
  • Next HIPEs/RFCs for
    • encoding
    • mapping
    • credential definition 
  • Node implementation of
    • context (merged)
    • schema PR in progress https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1513
• Migration from LibIndy
  • Closing PRs related to Indy wrappers with pointers to Aries language libraries
  • LibVCX support for some Aries protocols
• Ursa 0.3.0 release in November
  • Updated BLS signature (multi-signatures, small-BLS)
  • Compilation optimization for specific hardware
  • Rest of predicates for Anoncreds 2.0 and delegatable credentials

RFC Progress

• Rich Schema RFC headed to an APPROVED status, Troy had some comments on how the Link Secrets tie to W3C spec.
• Proposal to renumber RFC 0289

Other Business

• Crypto Service RFC, Robert Mitwicki
  • Expose cryptographic services outside of the Agent (e.g. make available for document transfer services).
  • https://github.com/mitfik/aries-rfcs/tree/master/features/0312-crypto-service
  • Next steps with the RFC:
    • Need to address overlap with Aries-KMS.
    • Need to address key exposure post-compromise.
      • Leverage message blinding. (Mike L can help)
    • Include more use cases
      • more specific details (PDF viewer . . . )
      • concern that the process is driven outside the agent, instead of by the agent
      • explain when the compromises in trust-shifting makes sense
      • where is this useful, and where is this not recommended
• Progress on POCs for Core Libraries: Aries-KMS, Aries-VDRI

Future Topics

• Next call
  • Progress on the Aries Protocol Test Suite
  • Hubs vs Agents
    • https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2019/07/23/rhythm-and-melody-how-hubs-and-agents-rock-together
• Other:
  
  • Status and future of wallet query language
  • IOT best practices (Robert Mitwicki, Adam Burdett , Lohan Spies )
  • DID Resolution W3C and Sam's concerns: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/issues/130
  • Architecture of Aries Verifiable Credentials Proof Formats (Mike Lodder)

Action items

Call Recording