Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver's licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. The Verifiable Credentials specification establishes a data model to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
This specification establishes a number of wireless protocols that can be used to request and present verifiable credentials over electromagnetic communication devices such ones supporting Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
We encourage contributions meeting the Contribution Guidelines. While we prefer the creation of issues and Pull Requests in the GitHub repository, discussions also occur on the public-credentials mailing list.
This specification is EXPERIMENTAL and is NOT INTENDED for production deployment.