Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
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Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
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Re: Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
#2This places all the trust in the institution that mints verifiable credentials. (or the institution + Auth0 if they use Auth0).
This is good for use cases where you want to assert that an organization says something about you (e.g., you have a degree).
It is not good for use cases where you want to assert that you say something (e.g., I voted for Blah, or I authorized this transfer).
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#3Wanted to take a look at the schemas linked, but identity0.io isn't even registered? oO
Re: Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
#4This places all the trust in the institution that mints verifiable credentials. (or the institution + Auth0 if they use Auth0). This is good for use cases where you want to assert that an organization says something about you (e.g., you have a degree). It is not good for use cases where you want to assert that you say something (e.g., I voted for Blah, or I authorized this transfer).
But I think it's a good use case for organization issued IDs, tickets, or even things like driver's license.
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#5This places all the trust in the institution that mints verifiable credentials. (or the institution + Auth0 if they use Auth0). This is good for use cases where you want to assert that an organization says something about you (e.g., you have a degree). It is not good for use cases where you want to assert that you say something (e.g., I voted for Blah, or I authorized this transfer).
But I think it's a good use case for organization issued IDs, tickets, or even things like driver's license.
Agreed! I think this is the start of something that will be big in a decade as adoption goes up.
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#6I did not understand if this is somehow related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity or not.
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#7Wanted to take a look at the schemas linked, but identity0.io isn't even registered? oO
They don’t have SSL enabled (or properly configured). But even with that in mind - it doesn’t work.
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#8Isn’t this just Json Web Tokens with a different name? (and an extra step to create a VP, presumably so the expiry on the VC can be longer).
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
But I think it's a good use case for organization issued IDs, tickets, or even things like driver's license.
Agreed! I think this is the start of something that will be big in a decade as adoption goes up.
Anonymous verification of age is a nice one: Site a generates a bit of bytes, you then take that to a government portal, login and get it signed, then you return with the signature and now the site knows nothing whatsoever about you, other than that you could get a government site to assert that you are old enough to order beer online.
The government site doesn't have to know anything about you either, other than you requested a beer token.
Re: Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
#10Isn’t this just Json Web Tokens with a different name? (and an extra step to create a VP, presumably so the expiry on the VC can be longer).
It is a JWT, but a JWT is just a data format, not a schema.
This VC thing seems to take ID Tokens from OIDC providers a little further and also standardizes what claims you can expect.