Re: Trust in Issuers (was: Materials from 2019-04-11 combined DID Spec and DID Resolution Spec meeting) from David Chadwick on 2019-04-17 (public-credentials@w3.org from April 2019)

From: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:58:50 +0100
To: daniel.hardman@evernym.com
Cc: =Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@evernym.com>, Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Message-ID: <651507e0-34c7-b887-d7df-e6e57606b58e@kent.ac.uk>

But this does not stop others from using the back door! The back door
should be bricked up.

On 16/04/2019 18:52, Daniel Hardman wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 Wednesday, 17 April 2019 07:59:17 UTC