Re: did:cel libraries and tools released

Congratulations Manu and team!

It is always great to see open source tooling that can help people play
around and experiment with Decentralized Identifiers and associated
technologies / use cases.

Would DB/did:cel folks like to present on this work to the CCG.

It could be fun to have some kind of DIY plug and play session where we try
create/update DIDs for ourselves and use them to authenticate and
sign/verify VCs etc.

Not sure how easy that would be to try setup, but I would be happy to help.

Or if not, even just a tutorial / walkthrough on how to use the cli would
be useful I feel.

Thanks again,
Will


On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM Amir Hameed <amsaalegal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Congratulations, Manu, and thank you for sharing this and for all the
> work that went into bringing did:cel to a public release.
>
> Thanks Amir, and Phil, for the kind words! :)
>
> > The approach is very interesting, and I’m looking forward to reading the
> specification and experimenting with the implementation.
>
> Yes, very interested in your feedback, Amir. We're trying to keep the
> core of did:cel very tight and focused (from a security perspective).
> The goal here isn't "how many features can we support?" it is "what is
> the smallest feature set that leads to a fully decentralized DID
> Method?".
>
> > I’d also love to explore building Rust and Python libraries and tooling
> around DID:CEL to help broaden the ecosystem and make it easier for more
> developers to experiment with and adopt.
>
> Yes, that would be very helpful. I hope that you will find that
> implementing did:cel (especially with AI assistance) should be a 1-2
> week task at most. That's by design, to try to minimize the effort and
> complexity for developers that want to build the solution into their
> environments. Rust and Python libraries would be very much welcome. I
> know Filip is working on Java libraries as well.
>
> -- manu
>
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> Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> https://www.digitalbazaar.com/
>
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