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

From: Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:41:52 -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: <CAFBYrUpCcPETZXJrxe5fKxcru=e3io=Okc1BGJF1DC4vALNKJA@mail.gmail.com>

Agreed.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 1:58 AM David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
>

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