Re: Trust in Issuers (was: Materials from 2019-04-11 combined DID Spec and DID Resolution Spec meeting) from Daniel Hardman on 2019-04-16 (public-credentials@w3.org from April 2019)

From: Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:52:50 -0600
To: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
Cc: "=Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@evernym.com>, Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAFBYrUrqgmKfv35q09E+SofPXw3tDYe=qu8Ddpo9MN8tGp0uZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Right. This is why Sovrin went down the road of testing revocation with a
cryptographic accumulator instead of a conversation back to the issuer.

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:49 AM David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
wrote:

> The current FIM
> model places the IdP at the centre of the ecosystem, which is ideal for
> Google tracking users and capturing data. VCs do not do this.
>
> However, the current VC data model gives Google a back door for this as
> follows:
>

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2019 17:53:24 UTC