Re: Credential Chaining

Hi All,

I think this issue may be what Manu is referring to that has caught the interest of the VC-EDU folks:

https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/831 <https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/831>

K.

> On Jun 29, 2022, at 12:43 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6/29/22 12:33 PM, Brent Shambaugh wrote:
>> Is there such a thing as credentials that can only be issued if the holder
>> already has a particular credential?
> 
> Is there such a thing as that concept? Yes.
> 
> Has someone implemented this? Depends on how you define "chaining".
> 
> If you mean you use one credential to get another credential:
> 
> Digital Bazaar has (in a proof of concept capacity) demonstrated the
> consumption of a digital identification credential issued by a government to
> receive a TruAge age verification credential.
> 
> If you mean, you embed one credential inside another credential:
> 
> I believe some of the VC EDU folks are exploring that use case... and yes, if
> you use VCs that are protected by Data Integrity (was Linked Data Signatures),
> then you can do arbitrary nesting of digitally signed VCs.
> 
> -- manu
> 
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