DHS S&T SVIP Call || Privacy Preserving Digital Credential Wallets and Verifiers

Hello Everyone,

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) has announced a new solicitation to catalyze, develop, enhance, and operationalize a set of privacy preserving building blocks to support digital credentialing.  The "Privacy Preserving Digital Credential Wallets & Verifiers" topic call is looking for cutting-edge solutions that can support the needs of a privacy preserving digital credentialing ecosystem and ensure that that ecosystem is accessible, open, competitive, diverse, and vibrant.

This SVIP solicitation seeks technical capabilities needed to support DHS's operational missions and seeks privacy preserving technical capabilities that directly support and integrate with the three-party digital identity model (issuer, holder, verifier) that could serve the mission needs of DHS Operational Components and Offices including:

  *   U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  *   U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  *   DHS Privacy Office (PRIV)
Applications must focus on at least one of the following technical topic areas (TTAs):

  1.  Digital Wallet: DHS is seeking digital wallets that are useful across contexts and jurisdictions, can support the broad range of credentials possible with W3C VCDM/DID standards that include verified support for DHS issued credentials, and are portable, highly secure, privacy-preserving, standards-based, interoperable, and multi-functional.
  2.  Mobile Verifier: DHS is seeking software-based Verifier implementations that can be deployed on mobile devices, including on iOS and Android based devices, that can support the broad range of credentials possible with W3C VCDM/DID standards to include verified support for DHS issued credentials.
... and each TTA will be expected to incorporate one or more of the following components which need to be delivered as Open Source SDKs:

  1.  Cryptographic Tools SDK for Issuers, Digital Wallets, and Verifiers: A suite of cryptographic tools to enable hashing, signing, bulk encryption, streaming encryption, random number generation and more, that can support FIPS compliant cryptography, selective disclosure capabilities, and other privacy preserving cryptographic schemes.
  2.  Sealed Storage SDK for Issuers, Digital Wallets, and Verifiers: Storage capabilities where data can be locked until specific software and/or hardware conditions are met. This capability supports the secure and protected storage of data such as cryptographic keys and other sensitive information.
  3.  Metadata Management SDK for Issuers, Digital Wallets, and Verifiers: Capabilities that allow it to retrieve metadata associated with credential issuance and verification and cache it locally as allowed by configurable policy.
  4.  Confidentiality and Integrity Protected Computing SDK for Issuers, Digital Wallets, and Verifiers: Capabilities that allow for the use of confidential computing to protect data in use by performing computations in a hardware-based, attested Trusted Execution Environment and to generate and consume attestations that are necessary to evaluate its operations.
Complete information on the Call as well as application information can be found @ https://sam.gov/opp/33b3b247777c4912b08c23ba97dc8af4/view

Happy Friday!

Best Regards,

Anil

Anil John
Technical Director, Silicon Valley Innovation Program
Science and Technology Directorate
US Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC, USA

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