2021-01-14 Identity Implementers WG Call

Summary

On Today's Call:

Review: Working Group status updates
Presentation:
Patrick Stas will be presenting an introduction to the Indyscan project and how it can monitor the health of Indy-based ledgers

Connection Info

The call takes place over Zoom: https://zoom.us/my/hyperledger.community.3?pwd=UE90WHhEaHRqOGEyMkV3cldKa2d2dz09

Date

14 Jan 2021 4PM UTC, 8AM PDT, 9AM MDT, 11AM EDT

Welcome/Introductions

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Attendees

Name (Organization) <email>
Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>
Sam Curren (Indicico.tech) <sam@indicio.tech>
Alexander Jonsson (Seropass.me) <alex@seropass.me>
Charles Lanahan
Lohan Spies
Marek Absa
Bill
Mike Richardson
Patrik Stas
Sebastian Bickerle
Sean Mouton
Jakub Koci
Miroslav Kovar
Himangshu Pan
Artur Philipp
Daniel Bachenheimer
Carlo Ferrarini

Announcements

IIW Workshop
- #31 (Oct 2020) Proceedings: https://internetidentityworkshop.com/past-workshops/
- #32 (Apr 2021), online, https://internetidentityworkshop.com
Thoughtful Biometrics - March 9,10,12 thoughtfulbiometrics.org

Working Group Reports and Release Plans

Main Identity WG
- Meeting Notes: 2021-01-06
  - "SSI with Biometrics" – Debajani Mohanty
  - Recording: VIDEO
  - Topics: what happens when biometrics return more than one person's identity? How is de-duplication performed?

Hyperledger Indy
- Contributors Meeting
  - 2021-01-05 Indy Contributors Call
    - Indy Node / Plenum
      - Next release in progress, same content as the last release, but using a revised CI/CD process for at least indy-plenum and indy-node
      - Ububtu 16 → 18 upgrade being tested
    - Indy SDK
      - RC published and being tested (v 1.16 Build 170)
      - In community testing
      - Ubuntu, Windows tests succeeded
      - Mobile & Mac releases included
      - Release shortly (date?)
    - Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
    - Evernym's next items (won't be adopting shared libraries, will probably maintain LibIndy as a fork outside of Hyperledger)
      1. Removing the Sovrin Token from Sovrin MainNet
    - Progress: Indy DID Method (did:indy) Specification
      - Indy DID:Method Spec-ing Meeting - weekly, Tuesday 7AM Pacific - Indy DID Method Specification
  - Build process
    - CI/CD moving from Jenkins to Github Actions
  - Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
    - Current status: creating a branch of ACA-Py with these components and without indy-sdk
    - Working ACA-Py branch doing credential exchange! Adding handling in anticipation of JSON-LD credentials.
    - Indy Shared:
      - indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
      - indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
      - indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
    - Aries Shared:
      - aries-credx - https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/aries-credx-framework-rs
      - areis-askar - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar

Hyperledger Aries
- Aries Working Group meetings:
  - Meeting Agenda & Notes: Aries Working Group
  - WG A: 2021-01-13-A Aries Working Group Call (AMER morning)
    - Project updates
    - Interoperable storage network built for the decentralized world: https://source.network/
  - WG B: 2021-01-13-B Aries Working Group Call (US afternoon)
    - Hosted Mediator for community use - Daniel Bluhm / Indicio https://indicio-tech.github.io/mediator/
    - AIP Next
      - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/pull/579
      - change from did:key to self encoded keys
      - JWE envelope
    - PR/Issues
      - 580 - Issue Credential V2 - Adjustments
      - 577 - change from did:key to self encoded keys
  - Aries Interop Profile AIP RFC 302: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-rfcs/tree/master/concepts/0302-aries-interop-profile
- Aries Agents (Cloud Agent Python, Static Agent)
  - Release 0.6.0 available, includes
    - OOB/DID Exchange support merged – testing/tweaking
    - Adjustments for supporting aries-askar – mostly internal
    - Multi-Tenant Support - SICPA and collaborators (Animo, Anon Solutions)
    - Mediator Support – Indicio - ACA-Py as mediator, ACA-Py as mediator client (through connections protocol) merged; Admin API, fixes in progress; need to add support for DID Exchange/OOB
  - In Progress:
    - Persistent Queues – Kiva – WIP PR submitted using redis
    - More on OOB
    - Credential Exchange V2 (RFC 0453/0454)
  - Starting soon:
    - Getting to W3C Verifiable Credential support with ZKP and Selective Disclosure with Revocation.
      - DHS SVIP JSON-LD Verifiable Credential exchange in Aries Protocols
- Aries Shared Libraries (agent storage, vdr, utils)
  - indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead) https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr - communication with Indy-Node ledgers
  - indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-shared-rs - includes indy-credx (Anoncreds support) and related packages
  - aries-askar - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-askar - secure storage (wallet) initiative
- Aries Language Frameworks and SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, Python)
- Tools
  - Aries Toolbox – supports ACA-Py 5.3 https://github.com/thclab/aries
  - Aries Protocol Test Suite - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-protocol-test-suite
  - Aries Agent Test Harness - https://github.com/bcgov/aries-agent-test-harness

Hyperledger Ursa
- Homepage: Hyperledger Ursa (EOL)
- 2021-01-06 Meeting Agenda
  - Distributed BBS+: (https://www.orbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Crypto_Group_signatures-2.pdf
  - Signature structure and types:
    1. "Simple" Signatures: KeyGen, Sign, Verify.
    2. Blind Signatures. KeyGen, Blind, Sign, (Blinded Sign?), Unblind, Verify.
    3. Threshold Signatures. KeyGen (more complicated), SignShare, Combine, Verify.
      1. Multi-round threshold signature. Can have extra definition for interactive protocols.
      2. Can have multiple types of KeyGen.
    4. Multisignatures. Multiple signers have signed THE SAME message.
    5. Aggregate signatures. Multiple signers have signed potentially different messages.
    6. Short group signatures. Need precise definitions.
  - How should we handle MPC and communication?
    1. Secure channel operations. How about ratcheting?
    2. Example: ECDSA.

Trust Over IP Foundation
- Main site: https://trustoverip.org/
- Wiki: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Trust+Over+IP+Foundation
- Webinar: Trust over IP and Government (15 Dec 2020)
  - Verifiable Credentials, passports, Covid Credential Initiative (CCI)
  - https://zoom.us/rec/share/j4vfX47K1RPgZlmGHpfrC6YEh6RXGs86KiEdTmq6z4VUOFM7Aa97u-6Yzz5rZ6dx.jg5BtbuA5HnxYOVL
- 18 Nov 2020 All Members Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/All+Members+Meeting+Page
  - Meting notes https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-18+All+Members+Meeting+Notes
  - Slides: Slides
- 11 Nov 2020 - Steering Committee Meeting: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page
  - Human Experience WG Presentation https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/2020-11-11+Steering+Committee+Meeting+Page?preview=/71624/71631/Exhibit%20B%20-%20The%20Human%20Experience%20(working%20group).pptx
- ToIP Working Groups:
  - Communications Committee: https://wiki.trustoverip.org/display/HOME/Communications+Committee
  - Governance Stack
  - Technical Stack
  - Utility Foundry
  - Ecosystem Foundry
  - Decentralized Semantics
  - Concepts and Terminology

DIF DIDComm Working Group
- Rolling Agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm/blob/main/agenda.md
- 4 Jan 2020 meeting:
  - Milestones
    - First Complete Draft - reads correctly from beginning to end Nov 30th.
    - Next Complete Draft - Eliminate all TODOs
  - Bluetooth Discussion
    - Jan 6, 6pm CET
    - Will announce on channel
  - DID Use Cases
    - Original: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/100
    - PR: https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/pull/126
      - Preview: https://pr-preview.s3.amazonaws.com/creatornader/did-use-cases/pull/126.html#messaging
  - PR/Issues:
    - 140 - Anonymous From
    - 141 - expires_time semantics
  - Discussion Topics
    - ACK - inclusion and status.
DIF Interoperability Group
- Main: https://identity.foundation/interop/
- Wiki: https://www.notion.so/Interoperability-WG-a42995c37e2a4511a10aea96cdbccc38
- Rolling agenda: https://github.com/decentralized-identity/interoperability/blob/master/agenda.md
  - 13 Jan 2020:
    - discussion on the various Verifiable Credential formats and why standardizing is useful
    - For comment: Kaliya's LFPH/CCI public-facing lightpaper on VC formats
Sovrin Foundation
- Technical Governance Board (TGB)
  - 7 Jan 2021 Meeting Minutes:
  - Governance Framework discussion (Sankarshan), looking for inputs on:
    - Public Write Access
    - Network of Networks support/interoperability (including the Indy DID method)
    - KERI support
    - Economics and sustainability plan
  - Documents
    - Introduction to the Sovrin Ecosystem, Governance Framework, and Sovrin Utility Governance Framework
    - Sovrin Governance Framework V2:
    - DID Method Rubric v1.0: https://github.com/w3c/did-rubric
- Steward Council
  - 10 Dec 2020 Meeting Minutes:
  - Next meeting: Jan 21st