This statement was co-written by DIF and ToIP, it can also be read at DIF’s blog and ToIP’s blog here.‌ ‌ On 3rd August 2021, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed advancing the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 specification to their W3C Recommendation stage, the ultimate level of the W3C…

ECDH-1PU is a key derivation process that offers sender authenticity, as well as significant performance gains over existing ECDH-ES aproaches. Submitted by SecureKeys’ Baha Shaaban, edited by DIF’s Chris Kelly In short, ECDH-1PU is a key derivation process that allows for sender authenticity and enables a “Perfect Forward Secrecy” mechanism…

Building a future of decentralized educational credentials, brick by brick — With the holiday season upon us, gift-giving is on the minds of many. A perennial favorite is LEGO, beloved by generations of children and adults alike. As the world’s most popular engineering and educational toy, and the world’s 7th strongest brand, LEGO knows a thing or two about learning; to…

As we speed towards the end of 2021, we have hit a couple of important communication milestones that we’d like to celebrate! 💪 This week, we hit 5k followers on Twitter, driven in no small part by attention garnered by our ToIP & DIF Joint Statement of Support for the…

Written by Markus Sabadello and Bernhard Fuchs, edited by Chris Kelly In May 2021, the DIF Identifiers & Discovery Working Group set up a weekly Special Work Item Call (held in addition to regular “main” Working Group calls), to make progress specifically on the Universal Resolver project, developing a tool…

The Decentralized Identity Foundation announced recently a new mechanism for rewarding and funding work in the common interest of its membership, the DIF Grants Program. The Steering Committee ratified an addendum defining these collaborations between a specific DIF working group and a grant sponsor, and this shiny new tool sits…

Having shown in our last piece how interoperability “profiles” are designed, we now tackle some key technical problem areas ripe for this kind of profile-first interoperability work across stacks. In our last essay, we explored the means and ends of interoperability targets and roadmapping across stacks and markets. “Interoperability,” like…

Medium-term interoperability challenges [Written in consultation with the Interoperability Working Group chairs] In our last essay, we explored the means and ends of interoperability targets and roadmapping across stacks and markets. “Interoperability,” like “standardization,” can be a general-purpose tool or an umbrella of concepts, but rarely works from the top-down…

Conformance Testing for Measurable Goals [Written in consultation with the Interoperability Working Group chairs] A recurring topic in the Interoperability Working Group is that of defining short-, medium- and long-term goals or “targets” for interoperability. The topic comes up again every few months, and each time it does, the chairs…