

The difficulty of expressingĭigital credentials on the Web makes it challenging to receive the sameīenefits through the Web that physical credentials provide us in the Machine-readable personal information on the Web. These credentials provideīenefits to us when used in the physical world, but their use on the WebĬurrently it is difficult to express education qualifications, healthcareĭata, financial account details, and other sorts of third-party verified C.7 Holder Acts on Behalf of the Verifier, or has no Relationship withĮnable us to travel between countries.C.5 Subject Passes a Verifiable Credential to Someone Else.C.4 Holder Acts on Behalf of the Subject.C.3 Subject Passes the Verifiable Credential to a Holder.C.2 Credential Uniquely Identifies a Subject.B.2 Differences between Contexts, Types, and CredentialSchemas.7.18 Issuer Cooperation Impacts on Privacy.7.14 Sharing Information with the Wrong Party.7.5 Long-Lived Identifier-Based Correlation.7.2 Personally Identifiable Information.Must disclose the information in accordance with Knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Made in connection with the deliverables of Has commitments from Working Group members to W3C recommends the wide deployment of this specification as a standard forĪ W3C Recommendation is a specification that, after extensive This document was published by the Verifiable Credentials Working Group as Group has obtained reports from fourteen (14) implementations. Least two implementations for each normative feature in the specification. The Working Group has received implementation feedback showing that there are at Substantive modifications to this version of the specification at this stage. Should be aware that the comment period regarding this specific version of theĭocument have ended and the Working Group will not be making

Publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be foundĬomments regarding this specification are welcome at any time, but readers This section describes the status of thisĭocument at the time of its publication. To express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that isĬryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

W3C Recommendation 03 March 2022 More details about this document This version: Latest published version: Latest editor's draft: History: Commit history Implementation report: Editors: Manu Sporny ( Digital Bazaar) (v1.0, v1.1)Ĭredentials are a part of our daily lives driver's licenses are used toĪssert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degreesĬan be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passportsĮnable us to travel between countries.
