[credentials] Privacy enhancing credentials

Just a quick ping to note that the Credentials CG is re-integrating a
bunch of payments use cases into their use cases document. One set of
use cases that keep coming up are privacy enhancing credentials.

We've engaged the Cryptography Forum Research Group[1] in an attempt to
discover the most cutting edge ways of establishing trustworthy
credentials that are also privacy protecting:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06864.html

We've also launched a research initiative at Digital Bazaar to look into
this space in more detail. We have a number of workable solutions that
we're looking at right now, but don't necessarily want to distract this
group with that conversation before the face-to-face.

This is just a heads-up that we're looking into it and have a few
solutions that we think may be workable for the Web Payments work.

-- manu

[1] https://irtf.org/cfrg

-- 
Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice
https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/

Received on Thursday, 4 June 2015 13:18:27 UTC