Identosphere 182: OpenIDIDComm! • KERI updates • HTTP over SSH • dRAG with OriginTrail and Gemini

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Upcoming

• [Online] DIDComm and OpenID VC Protocols 4/30 Indicio

• [Brussels] EBSI Ecosystem Day 5/7 [Register]

• [London/Hybrid] MEF CONNECTS ID & DATA 05/21

• [Las Vegas] Identiverse 05/28-31 (Kaliya Speaking)

• [Santa Clara] PERP ‘24: 2024 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect 06/3-4 USENIX

• [Santa Clara, CA] Governing Identity, Respectfully 06/04 Wendy Seltzer, Usenix 

• [Berlin] Digital ID, Web3, and Metaverses EICC 06/4-7 (Kaliya is Speaking)

• [Switzerland] Digital Identity unConference Europe 06/18-20 [Sponsorships Available]

• [Portugal] Open Identity Summit: Research, Experience and Innovation 06/20-21

• [ARES Conference] International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities Deadline 05/08 Event 07/30-08/02

• [South Africa] DID UnConf: Africa 09/25-27 registration opens soon

Hiring

• Lead Software Engineer - Instnt

• Consensys is hiring a Web3 Product Designer - MetaMask

• OpenID Foundation Certification Program Recruiting a Java Developer

• C# Tech Lead GS1

IIW

• [Youtube] IIW Recap day 1 Indicio [day 2] [day 3]

Explainer

• 9 Things You Didn't Know About Decentralized Identifiers 2024-04-19 Rizèl Scarlett, TBD

Relationships are Entangled 2024-04-18 Phil Windley

People aren't digitally embodied. As a result their online relationships are anemic. As we think about the kinds of digital identity systems that will help people live authentic online lives, we must build identity system that give people tools to operationalize rich digital relationships.

[New Podcast, Youtube] Verify This

We're connecting with leading experts across the industry to shed light on all things digital identity. We're talking trending issues, lessons learned and priorities for the future within verification and authentication.

Development

Simple SSI 2024-04-14 FutureForg

I’ve begun an effort I call “Simple SSI.” My goal for Simple SSI is to champion SSI code that favors these principles:

• Uses spec terminology faithfully

• Favors a declarative approach

• Includes self-documenting tests

• Has clear, short, and up-to-date documentation

• Produces easy-to-install, reliable artifacts that are readily available

• Produces broadly compatible artifacts

Organization

vLEI Demystified Part 3: QVI Qualification Program 2024-04-019 Yanisa Sunanchaiyakarn & Nuttawut Kongsuwan, Cinema

The Qualification of vLEI Issuers is the evaluation process conducted by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to assess the suitability of organizations aspiring to serve as Qualified vLEI Issuers within the vLEI ecosystem.

[Governance] Comparing Two of Decentralized Identity’s Leading Governance Models Sudo Platform

The ToIP solution is architected to align with the software engineering processes of larger entities while the DIF solution is intended to fulfill targeted development needs. As such, they are difficult to compare since they do not have the same elements and address different organizational requirements.

Government

Empowering Self-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionizing Data Control 2024-04-11 Velocity Network

Collaboration between the private sector and governments is about agreeing on the problems to be solved and using that knowledge to choose standardized technology and governance. These two standardizations enable mass market adoption and competition while never compromising on security and privacy.

European

The state can IT 2024-04-16 Republik

The [Swiss] federal government has repeatedly failed in large IT projects. In the second attempt for an electronic ID, he did everything right for the first time. Or almost everything.

[critique] The EU wasted €60M on a pointless fintech fad — but the Belgians won’t let it die – POLITICO Politico

Apparently BEN MUNSTER didn’t get the memo. 

Web Standards

[github] OpenIDIDComm 2024-04-12 IDUnion

The OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP specifications define protocols for issuance and verification of Verifiable Credentials between Issuer, Wallet, and Verifier extending the commonly used OAuth 2.0 protocol. Currently the two OpenID4VCI/VP-Protocols are missing a feature to enable future communication between the involved parties. To add this feature to the OpenID4VCI/VP-Protocols we want to utilize DIDComm, a transport agnostic messaging protocol based on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). Therefore, the goal of this work is to write an extension for the two OpenID4VCI/VP-Protocols that additionally allows the creation of a DIDComm channel for future communication.

Vision for W3C 2024-03-24 W3C

The fundamental function of W3C today is to provide an open forum where diverse voices from around the world and from different organizations and industries work together to evolve the web by building consensus on voluntary global standards for Web technologies.

OpenID Federation Session at April 2024 IIW 2024-04-18 Mike Jones

• Trust Establishment with OpenID Federation

OpenID Presentations at April 2024 OpenID Workshop and IIW 2024-04-16 Mike Jones

• OpenID Connect Working Group Update

• Introduction to OpenID Connect

KERI

• [Nice Collection] KERI Resources

• KERI Update: Major release and Branch Strategy Change Kent Bull

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to KERI. Part 3: How do you use KERI? 2024-04-14

The resources provided below, while presented in no particular order, serve to supplement your exploration of KERI. Moreover, this blog will serve as an implementer guide to further deepen your understanding and proficiency in utilizing KERI.

Industry Application

[DeFi] tbDEX 1.0 Now Available 2024-04-16 TBD

tbDEX enables wallet applications to connect liquidity seekers with providers and equips all participants with a common language for facilitating transactions.

tbDEX is architected on Web5 infrastructure, utilizing decentralized technologies such as Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs)

[Employment] Jobseekers Want Digital Credentials for Skill-Sharing. Are Employers Ready? 2024-04-15 JFF

Incubated within JFFLabs, the Verifiable Credentials Project focuses on ensuring that the technical infrastructure of credentials, and the applications that use them, are built on open standards. 

[Supply Chain] Co-Developing a Digital Supply Chain Management Suite 2024-04-14 The Maritime Executive

• Data standards: [...] TLIP is set up with APIs for GS1, EPCIS 2.0, and UN/CEFACT data standards. [...] The work of the Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) is going to essential in these efforts to ensure interoperability on the level of data.

• Digital standards: Digital standards include how authenticity is secured using verifiable credentials, what type of encryption is used, and how the challenge of the digital identity is resolved.

[Web3] What is the idOS? idOS Network

• A compliant dStorage Network of Nodes, managed by Node operators that host user-encrypted data, usually in the form of W3C Verifiable Credentials

• An Access Management Protocol, allowing users to manage their own data and grant/revoke access to third parties like dApps

DWeb

[twitter] SSH is a beautiful network protocol with a lot of untapped potential 2024-04-14 Millie

It's basically a standard for decentralized encryption of TCP-traffic. You could route anything TCP over SSH, you could even have HTTP over SSH; encrypted HTTP without the overhead of PKI. Why isn't this done??

Decentralized RAG 101 with OriginTrail DKG and Google Gemini 2024-04-22

• Knowledge Graphs — structural knowledge in knowledge graphs allows a hybrid of neural and symbolic AI methodologies, enhancing the GenAI models with deterministic inputs.

• Ownership — dRAG uses input from Knowledge Assets that have an owner that can manage access to the data contained in the Knowledge Asset.

• Verifiability — every piece of knowledge on the DKG has cryptographic proofs published ensuring that no tampering has occurred since it was published.

Company Stories

Introducing Our Fresh Identity: A Journey of Evolution 2024-04-12 Ayanworks

Through our partnership with Beitou, ZCert becomes the first global W3C-compliant Verifiable Credential implementation 2024-04-05 Zetrix_officia

everyone is the first at something 👀 crypto vibe 🧐

Initially, it will be utilized by Chinese domestic nationals to digitize their National ID or driving license. These Verifiable Credentials can then be presented abroad and authenticated by any verifier. Beitou IT's integration with China's nationwide police and transport department databases ensures seamless authentication

Decentralized Identity Expansion in India with Hemant Sahoo and Ajay Srivastava 2024-04-11 Indicio Insights

Verifiable credentials can help reduce some key problems facing the citizens of India. Hemant Sahoo and Ajay Srivastava join the latest episode of Identity Insights to discuss banking, land records issues, and more.

MMDoc is on the growing list of clinics that enable patients to store and control their medical records 2024-04-08 zadadotio

Research

User-friendly Integration of Identity Wallets and Mobility Platforms: Conducted in the SDIKA Project 2024-04 Max Sauer, Simon Pfeifer, Jan Surmeli, Elias Siebert

In order to gain suggestions for improving, a UX evaluation was conducted in the project ‘Showcase Secure Digital Identities Karlsruhe’ (short: SDIKA) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK)

Web 3

[Github] Update EIP-1: Feat/add caip #8247 Ethereum

This PR adds support for Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals (CAIPs) as valid external links. Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals (CAIPs) describe standards for blockchain projects that are not specific to a single chain.
[...] WalletConnect also comes with CAIP support by default, and thus any dapp using wallet connect automatically conforms to CAIP25, CAIP2, CAIP10.

[GitHub] ERC7555: Single Sign-On for Account Discovery Ethereum

1. Standard way for applications to request a users signing address.

2. Standard way for applications to provide single sign-on (SSO) functionality for alternative signing methods.

3. Standard way for applications to disclose smart accounts that have been created through their own service.

Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals

Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals (CAIPs) describe standards for blockchain projects that are not specific to a single chain.

IDNotSSI

• ‘World Chain’ to Extend Reach of Worldcoin’s Biometric Digital ID System

Web 2.0 is Collapsing Under its Own Weight Phil Windley

The overhead of performing even simple tasks online is getting larger and larger. I question the security of almost all these supposedly "secure" messaging systems. And I'm tired of the 'Utopia of Rules' mindset pervasive in every organization. It's exhausting how they expect customers to constantly adapt to their needs.

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