Trends shaping the future of #microcredentials https://blog.weareopen.coop/reframing-recognition-part-4-4a0811255a00

This is Part 4 (of 7!) in our series sharing insights from the NDLN report which will be released later this week.

#VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #DigitalBadges

Part 3 of our seven(!) part series introducing a new report on digital and micro credentials for the NDLN is now out:

https://blog.weareopen.coop/reframing-recognition-part-3-c3c956c09574

#VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials #DigitalBadges

We recently authored a report for the Irish NDLN on the transformative potential of micro and digital credentialing in recognising learning and achievements.

https://blog.weareopen.coop/reframing-recognition-part-1-50b0fc77cd05

#Microcredentials #DigitalCredentials #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #OpenREcognition #DigitalBadges

Whoops I gave some money to ISO

#mdl #mdoc #verifiablecredentials

@SwiftOnSecurity I can't retoot it hard enough. Another feather in the imaginary cap of #VerifiableCredentials.

Shouldn't the police be providing some kind of verifiable credential, a digital signature, to prove that it's really the police making these requests? Wouldn't that solve the problem? At the very least, use Pretty Good Privacy.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/fbi-says-hackers-are-sending-fraudulent-police-data-requests-to-tech-giants-to-steal-peoples-private-information/

#verifiablecredentials #DigitalSign #authenticity #authentication #digitalsignage #DigitalSigning #digitalsignature #pgp

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There’s nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator.

This illustration was created for a series of credentialing workshops with Badge guru Doug Belshaw for the N-TUTORR project.

#OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials

> [Verifiable Credentials] allow for selective disclosure of information. For example, instead of handing over your entire driver’s license at a bar (which has a picture of you, your address, etc.), you can selectively disclose that you are of drinking age.

https://medium.com/@dfinity/introducing-verifiable-credentials-to-the-internet-computer-898f5538dcfb

#crypto #internetComputer #verifiableCredentials #icp #identity #auth #authentication #cryptography #blockchain #passkeys #passkey #openChat #decideAI #proofOfHumanity #web3 #defi #dapp

Finally a simple tutorial on #VerifiableCredentials

https://medium.com/@skounis/how-to-create-a-did-web-and-issue-and-verify-w3c-verifiable-credentials-bcd5215e378d

My colleague Gertjan De Mulder is presenting the work on using #VerifiableCredentials in #Solid pods with #LinkedDataNotifications at the SDS Workshop! In this work, the proof of a credential is stored in Solid pods to allow proving if a patient has a medical subscription to buy certain medication or proof that a job applicant has a diploma or skills for the job they are applying to.

#eswc2024 @eswc_conf @pietercolpaert

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Leonard Rosenthol, of Adobe, introduced the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

The C2PA work leverages W3C standards and aims to develop technical specs for widespread content provenance and authenticity, allowing users to trace media origins. #VerifiableCredentials, #WebAnnotations,

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe, introduced the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) that leverages W3C standards (#VerifiableCredentials, #WebAnnotations, etc.).
C2PA aims to develop technical specs for widespread content provenance and authenticity, allowing users to trace media origins.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE is a @w3c #CandidateRecommendation !#timetoimplement
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-jose-cose/

#VerifiableCredentials enhance trust, privacy, and control in digital interactions by enabling owners to manage how their information is shared and verified. This specification outlines how JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) can secure #VerifiableCredentials using JOSE and COSE.

Feedback is welcome in #GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/vc-jose-cose/

Just hit the button on a post @dajb and I co-wrote. Actually, Doug did most of the work and I just said some random stuff and then it became this pretty awesome post about #FOSS #ideology #verifiablecredentials https://blog.weareopen.coop/examining-the-roots-248077d11c2b #openbadges #openrecognition #digitalcredentials

Data Integrity BBS Cryptosuites v1.0 has just been published as a #w3c Candidate Recommendation #timetoimplement !

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/CR-vc-di-bbs-20240404/

This specification describes how to generate digital #signatures for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of #VerifiableCredentials using the BBS signature scheme (👀 BBS is the acronym of its creators: Boneh, Boyen and Shacham).

See also the "BBS Cryptosuite v2023 Explainer": https://github.com/w3c/vc-di-bbs/blob/main/EXPLAINER.md

https://youtube.com/shorts/XkTqQYW35ig?si=YhN8NBWwelaFdKR3

The most complex part is an issuer-verifier ecosystem and trust relation

We could unlock a large number of use cases where the issuer and a verifier is the same organization or close partners.
It makes more sense for partners and makes the process more decoupled and interoperable. For the same organization, we could still benefit from VCs stored on the user side in the security and data compliance space.

#ssi #trust #verifiablecredentials

Here's the next one: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/12/28/tb872-meta-narrative-for-my-systemic-inquiry/

#VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #HigherEducation #SystemsThinking

1️⃣ Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0 describes mechanisms for ensuring the authenticity and integrity of #VerifiableCredentials and similar types of constrained digital documents using #cryptography
https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-integrity/
Check out the explainer! https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-integrity/blob/main/EXPLAINER.md

2️⃣ The Verifiable Credentials JSON Schema specification provides a mechanism for the use of #JSON Schemas with VCs through a standardized mechanism called "Credential Schemas"
https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-json-schema/

🔎 Unlocking #VerifiableCredentials: A Series 🌐🔒

As people, we tend to collect things - papers and documents - that prove our achievements. In other words, our credentials. This could be anything from our bachelor’s degree diploma to our licence to work in a specific field. Currently, many of us need to show these kinds of important credentials in our day-to-day lives, but obtaining or verifying them can be quite challenging. 😬

Despite this wariness, the whitepaper makes good arguments, especially in the "issuer-always-up" approach as needed by Bit Strings. I worry about the effective loss of a persistent VC by the holder if an issuer disappears which the EBSI helps protect against. This worry about "issuer-always-up" is assuming the lack of an explicit revocation status is effectively a revocation.

2/n
#verifiablecredentials