Re: More details about the Verifiable Credentials Demo

Christopher,

Yeah, the 'jws' looks alarming at first glance. But it is a Linked Data
Proof - the spec was changed some months ago to represent the actual LDP
signature as a standalone JWS, as a step towards interop with the JWT/JOSE
community.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 4:11 PM Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:42 AM Matthew Collier <
> mcollier@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
>
>> A sample signed VC looks like this.  You should be able to verify this
>> credential yourself using the vc-js-cli tool.
>> ```
>> {
>>    "@context": [
>>      "https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1",
>>      "https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/examples/v1"
>>    ],
>>    "id": "https://example.com/credentials/1872",
>>    "type": [
>>      "VerifiableCredential",
>>      "AlumniCredential"
>>    ],
>>    "issuanceDate": "2010-01-01T19:23:24Z",
>>    "credentialSubject": {
>>      "id": "did:example:ebfeb1f712ebc6f1c276e12ec21",
>>      "alumniOf": "Example University"
>>    },
>>    "issuer":
>> "
>> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mattcollier/bbeb042136d8c6971ec162236f0a77f2/raw
>> ",
>>    "proof": {
>>      "type": "EcdsaSecp256k1Signature2019",
>>      "created": "2019-08-01T13:49:11Z",
>>      "jws":
>>
>> "eyJhbGciOiJFUzI1NksiLCJiNjQiOmZhbHNlLCJjcml0IjpbImI2NCJdfQ..MEQCIBjyUUdGaXJE1GRu91XOU4C1BjUDp_JyxMLSY8MzxKfxAiA9SEbcPnWZh045oLx5aPzZlZABdnApkrL5bAyev29fLA",
>>      "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod",
>>      "verificationMethod":
>> "
>> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mattcollier/c0b673cef7a764a85c12c813d4ca76ad/raw
>> "
>>    }
>> }
>>
>
> Matt,
>
> I'm confused by this — I may be misreading it. Is this a Linked Data Proof
> example? One of our goals was to have some reference  (we hoped this code
> base) to demonstrate conformance of other JSON-LD/LD-Proof libraries for
> Verifiable Claims.
>
> — Christopher Allen
>