Identosphere 213: Digital Credentials API Date • OpenAI on Personhood Credentials • 10 ways VCs transform Government • BlueSky
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Oh by the way, did you also know that the state of California DMV app is doing dual issuance with both ISO mdl and W3C credentials in their wallet? (page 8)
The Philippine Department of Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said: “By keeping in step with best international practices, and with the cooperation of private concessionaires of airports, we can elevate Philippine aviation to global standards. Major airports abroad have long adopted this technology.”
Below you will find the key topics of the concerns we have in adding a digital credentials API to the web platform (some of which likely will be technical addressable). However, some of these topics haven’t yet been discussed, or else have been discussed but have not led to proposals that will address the issues. These are issues that we believe need to be addressed, and it would be better to continue to iterate on them within the Web Incubation Community Group rather than moving the work to the FedCM Working Group.
Motivation for Modifying Special Soundness Definition
Corner case r = 0 yields the signing key instead of a signature
Only matters when using special soundness to argue for proof of knowledge or cryptographic security
Proposed definition: when two accepting transcripts have same response first component and different commitments, it's unusual and should not occur in significant cases.
it told me that an app is a broad category of software designed for various tasks whereas a wallet is a specialised type of app specifically focused on storing payment methods and (and I rather like this perspective) facilitating electronic transactions
The mobile digital wallet has become a fixture in digital identity. It is even being touted as surpassing the web browser as the primary user interface and user experience of the future internet. It’s early days; naturally there are various ways to organise and present a user’s collection(s) of digital credentials, in native wallets and mobile apps. There will be a contest of ideas around preferred UX. But the suggestion of a wallet war misses the most critical success factor for utility and interoperability, and it’s not at the wallet level!
The paper does not state that personhood credentials (PHCs) would use verifiable credentials (VCs) as defined by the W3C or other standards, but it does explore overlapping concepts. Specifically, it references anonymous credentials and proof-of-personhood systems, which share similarities with VCs in terms of cryptographic techniques and privacy-preserving design. The authors acknowledge related initiatives like W3C’s Verifiable Credentials framework and other decentralized identity systems, but they position PHCs as a distinct tool focused on proving "personhood" rather than broader identity attributeCompany Stories
The Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ) Digital Farm Wallet took out the award in the “Digital Safety, Governance, Privacy, and Cybersecurity” category of the long-running awards program which recognizes disruptive and transformative solutions for end users.
"Traditional methods of identification no longer make sense. Aside from being cumbersome, they simply do not meet modern privacy and security needs," said Ace Shim, co-founder and CEO of Hopae. "Although eIDAS 2.0 represents a driving force for the adoption of Hopae's technology, it is clear that this is a necessity for everyone from enterprises that seek to conduct international business to the shops that want to sell goods like alcohol online. Hopae is at the forefront of a paradigm shift, and we are excited to bring DCX to the U.S."
The story of why password rules were recommended and enforced without scientific evidence since their invention in 1979 is a story of brilliant people, at the very top of their field, whose well-intentioned recommendations led to decades of ignorance.
Under these definitions, Bluesky and ATProto are not meaningfully decentralized, and are not federated either. However, this is not to say that Bluesky is not achieving something useful; while Bluesky is not building what is presently a decentralized Twitter, it is building an excellent replacement for Twitter, and Bluesky's main deliverable goal is something else instead: a Twitter replacement, with the possibility of "credible exit".
