Know What You Know

For the past couple years I’ve doing work in the ecosystem of verifiable digital credentials, a space that perhaps is finally gaining some national traction given the introduction of the MATCH Act by Congressman Burgess Owens.

What are verifiable credentials? So glad you asked? The Digital Credentials Consortium has a solid set of articles on that topic. Here are several of my favorites:

• Verifiable Credentials Verification Model
• What Makes a Verifiable Credential Verifiable?
  • The Technology Behind Tamper-Proof Digital Credentials
  • Expiration and Validity
  • Revocation and the DCC verifier-core
• The Essential Guide to Digital Credential Interoperability

My own work has been varied. For example, I’ve participated in a handful of standards working groups. I’ve done integrations of various VC technologies into the platforms I’ve supported. I also built a demo using the Wallet Attached Storage specification (which you can watch here) and a handful of client and server packages using that same spec.

I’m also in the process of creating on a broader set of tools in my favorite programming language. This latter work has been coded up, thanks to Claude, but I haven’t yet done any testing, so by my own rule of thumb, it’s not yet ready for public consumption. But perhaps soon!