This page contains a growing collection of educational resources related to Evernym, the Sovrin Foundation, and Hyperledger Indy. It was born from [/awesome-decentralized-id](../README.md) and contains some of the same material, but is quite exhaustive. As a result, I decided to split this list off to focus on learning about Hyperedger Indy, the Sovrin Foundation, adn Evernym. Its an index for training, developers, students, end users, investors, and enterprise to more easily navigate the digital identity landscape enabled by Hyperledger Indy.
Internet Identity Workshop is where the quest for concious, user-centric, identity began. Rebooting Web-of-Trust Workshops sprung from the IIW, focused on creating standards for DPKI. Among the United Nations 'Sustainable Development Goals' is for all the world to have access to a digital identity by 2030. Around 2016, the SDGs, blockchain, and the GDPR converged bringing much energy to the decentralized identity ecosystem.
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[Christopher Allen](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/)[[**info**](https://christophera.info/)] details the overarching history of internet idenitity standards and outlines [10 Principles of Self Sovereign Identity](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/self-sovereign-identity/blob/master/self-sovereign-identity-principles.md) in his seminal work [The Path to Self-Soverereign Identity](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-soverereign-identity.html)[[**ϟ**](https://www.coindesk.com/path-self-sovereign-identity/amp/)]
<blockquoteclass="twitter-tweet"data-lang="en"><plang="en"dir="ltr">0/ “Self-Sovereign Identity: A Progress Report”…</p>— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) <ahref="https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/989120215702261761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
* [Outlier Ventures invests in, becomes strategic partner of Evernym](https://coinreport.net/outlier-ventures-invests-becomes-strategic-partner-evernym/)[[**ϟ**](https://outlierventures.io/portfolio/evernym/)]
* [The Three Models of Digital Identity Relationships — How self-sovereign identity (SSI) is different, and why it’s better](https://medium.com/evernym/the-three-models-of-digital-identity-relationships-ca0727cb5186)
* [Founded](http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/09/announcing_the_sovrin_foundation.shtml) in [September](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sovrin-foundation-launches-first-dedicated-self-sovereign-identity-network-300336702.html) 2016, The [Sovrin](https://sovrin.org/)
* [Getting Started with Sovrin](https://sovrin.org/library/getting-started-with-sovrin/)
* [Sovrin: A Protocol and Token for Self-Sovereign Identity and Decentralized Trust](https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/Sovrin-Protocol-and-Token-White-Paper.pdf)
* [Sovrin Main Net Outage, December 2018](https://forum.sovrin.org/t/sovrin-main-net-outage-december-2018/1010)
> The Sovrin Main Network experienced an outage lasting from Saturday 2018-12-08 until Tuesday 2018-12-11. This was our first significant outage of the network. This post describes the incident, how it was addressed, and what we are doing to prevent future incidents and improve our responses.
* [Sovrin Status Twitter](https://twitter.com/sovrin_status)
The Sovrin ledger is operated by Stewards, trusted organizations within the ecosystem who have agreed to abide by the requirements in the [Sovrin Trust Framework](https://sovrin.org/library/sovrin-governance-framework/) and are responsible for operation the nodes that maintain the Sovrin distributed ledger.
Stewards also, as a group, accept or reject any changes to the ledger-specific portions of the Sovrin open source code by virtue of that role. They thus provide a counterbalance to the Sovrin architects who maintain the Indy code base.
* [Building Your Business on Sovrin: Domain-Specific Trust Frameworks](http://www.windley.com/archives/2018/03/building_your_business_on_sovrin_domain-specific_trust_frameworks.shtml)
* [Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers](http://www.windley.com/archives/2016/09/self-sovereign_identity_and_the_legitimacy_of_permissioned_ledgers.shtml)
<sup><ahref="https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-for-business-an-introduction-to-hyperledger-technologies">Linux Foundation -Blockchain for Business -INDY</a></sup>
* The Linux Foundation's [Blockchain for Business](https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/linuxfoundationx-blockchain-for-business) course may be freely audited and has a section about Indy.
* [Blockchain development made easy: Getting started with Hyperledger Indy](https://jaxenter.com/hyperledger-indy-interview-hardman-148796.html) - Interview with Daniel Hardman[[**G**](https://github.com/dhh1128)][[**L**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielhardman/)][[**T**](https://twitter.com/dhh1128)], Hyperledger Indy maintainer
* [Hyperledger Ursa](https://wiki.hyperledger.org/projects/ursa) "includes the Hyperledger Indy-Crypto code base that is the building block for anonymous credentials, the verifiable credentials protocol, in indy-sdk used by the Sovrin Network. [...] We are hopeful the [shared library](https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa) will help other platforms better incorporate and use ZKP-based credentials and leverage Sovrin for their identity component." (From Nathan George on Sovrin Telegram)[[**ϟ**](https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2018/12/04/welcome-hyperledger-ursa)]
* "Byzantine fault tolerance is a sub-field of fault tolerance research inspired by the Byzantine Generals' Problem, which is a generalized version of the Two Generals' Problem."
* [HyperledgerIndyWGCall_2018-12-06](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1166XpTM8WgZVMN2ca53CRCJapZlAeUhM/view) Discussion of VON and Plenum Docs (with info graphics)
* [An Accumulator Based on Bilinear Maps and Efficient Revocation for Anonymous Credentials](https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/539.pdf)
* [An Efficient System for Non-transferable Anonymous Credentials with Optional Anonymity Revocation](https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2001/20450093.pdf)
* [sovrin-foundation/connector-app](https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/connector-app) - Reference mobile edge agent for use with the Sovrin Network built from Hyperledger Indy.
* [Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity with Clare Nelson](https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/zeroknowledge-proofs-privacypreserving-digital-identity-with-clare-nelson)
>Our zero-knowledge proofs are part of the [Idemix protocol](http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/EEB54FF3B91C1D648525759B004FBBB1/%24File/rz3730_revised.pdf), where they are used to prove the possession of [Camenisch-Lysyanskaya credentials](https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/019.pdf). We also use zero-knowledge proofs in the revocation protocol, which is based on [cryptographic accumulators](https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/539.pdf). —*[What Zero Knowledge Poof Algorithm is used in Sovrin?](https://forum.sovrin.org/t/what-zero-knowledge-proof-algorithm-is-used-in-sovrin/71/2)*
>Identity Mixer is not directly (re)implemented by Sovrin, but its cryptographic foundations are very similar, and Sovrin’s implementation includes most of its extended features (predicates, multi-credential, revocation, advanced issuance…). One of the researchers who helped to create Identity Mixer is on Sovrin’s Technical Governance Board and has offered insight to keep the implementations aligned on goals and methods.
>—*[How is IDEMix Implemented?](https://forum.sovrin.org/t/how-idemex-is-implemented-in-sovrin-indy/)*
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
* [DID Auth and the Little I-am-Me](https://medium.com/@markus.sabadello/did-auth-and-the-little-i-am-me-ec14d757ff09)
* [Introduction to DID Auth](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/final-documents/did-auth.md) [[**ϟ**](http://ssimeetup.org/introduction-did-auth-markus-sabadello-webinar-10/)]
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
* [Verifiable Claims Working Group](https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/) [[**D**](https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/charter.html)]
* [Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0](https://w3c.github.io/vc-data-model/) [[**G**](https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model)] [[**D**](https://w3c.github.io/vc-use-cases/)]
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
* [Agent to Agent Communication](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHAy8dMefZG9JNg87Zi33SfKkZvUvXvx/view): Daniel Hardman explains the goals of agent to agent communication
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
On May 22 at Consensus 2017 the formation of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) [was announced](https://www.ethnews.com/decentralized-identity-foundation-announces-formation-at-consensus-2017):
* [Conensus 2017 - Building an Foundation for Decentralized Identity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5laRZfn8AI) (video)
* [Decentralized Identity Foundation Grows To 56 Members In Our First Year](https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/decentralized-identity-foundation-grows-to-56-members-in-our-first-year-3ec117e811d8)
* [Identity Hubs Capabilities Perspective](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/identity-hubs-capabilities-perspective.md) - Identity Hubs currently proposed in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) are a subset of a general Decentralized Identifier (DID).
* [A Universal Resolver for self-sovereign identifiers](https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/a-universal-resolver-for-self-sovereign-identifiers-48e6b4a5cc3c) [[**G**](https://github.com/decentralized-identity/universal-resolver)] [[**>**](#Decentralized-Identity-Foundation)]
* [uniresolver.io](https://uniresolver.io/)
* [6/27 Masterclass on the DID Universal Resolver | Identiverse 2018](https://www.slideshare.net/Identiverse/627-masterclass-on-the-did-universal-resolver-identiverse-2018)
>VON's founding members are governments who are, by law, trusted issuers of data about organizations. The Province of British Columbia, Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada have come together to create the initial services needed to establish VON.
>
>VON's founders have delivered new Indy-based open source components which form VON's backbone. TheOrgBook is a publicly accessible repository of verifiable claims about organizations. VON-X enables services to verify and issue credentials.[[**ϟ**](https://hgf18.sched.com/event/G8rm/verifiable-organizations-network-a-production-government-deployment-of-hyperledger-indy-john-jordan-province-of-british-columbia-stephen-curran-cloudcompass-computing-inc)]
* "an initiative by the government of British Columbia to create a trusted network of organizational data. It allows organizations to claim credentials that are part of their own digital identity, using a component called [TheOrgBook](https://theorgbook.pathfinder.gov.bc.ca/en/home)[[**G**](https://github.com/bcgov/theorgbook)] that lists entities with their associated public verifiable claims.
* [Getting Started with Hyperledger Indy](https://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/274/Getting%20started%20with%20Hyperledger%20Indy%20Presentation.pdf)
* [Hyperledger Ursa](https://wiki.hyperledger.org/projects/ursa) "includes the Hyperledger Indy-Crypto code base that is the building block for anonymous credentials, the verifiable credentials protocol, in indy-sdk used by the Sovrin Network. [...] We are hopeful the [shared library](https://github.com/hyperledger/ursa) will help other platforms better incorporate and use ZKP-based credentials and leverage Sovrin for their identity component." (From Nathan George on Sovrin [**tele**](https://t.me/sovrin_foundation)gram[[**ϟ**](https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2018/12/04/welcome-hyperledger-ursa)]
* [News Release: DHS S&T Awards $749K to Evernym for Decentralized Key Management Research and Development](https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2017/07/20/news-release-dhs-st-awards-749k-evernym-decentralized-key) (Department of Homeland Security)
* [Evernym and R3 Partner to Apply Self-Sovereign Identity to Financial Services](http://www.paymentsjournal.com/evernym-r3-partner-apply-self-sovereign-identity-financial-services/)
* [Sovrin Foundation, Ontology and Evernym Collaborate on Interoperable Decentralized Identity Networks](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/23/1625715/0/en/Sovrin-Foundation-Ontology-and-Evernym-Collaborate-on-Interoperable-Decentralized-Identity-Networks.html)
* [SecureKey Technologies to explore interoperability between Verified.Me and Hyperledger Indy](https://securekey.com/press-releases/hyperledger-indy/)
* [Evernym rolls with auto industry association MOBI to promote SSI in automotive and IoT](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/05/1617425/0/en/Evernym-rolls-with-auto-industry-association-MOBI-to-promote-SSI-in-automotive-and-IoT.html)
* [15 Industry Leaders Join Evernym’s Global Accelerator to Build the Future of Digital Identity.](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/11/07/1647044/0/en/15-Industry-Leaders-Join-Evernym-s-Global-Accelerator-to-Build-the-Future-of-Digital-Identity.html)
> Founding members of the Accelerator include industry leading organizations ATB Financial, IAG, Irish Life, the International Federation of Red Cross, Spark New Zealand, Truu and three provincial and state governments. Collectively, these organizations represent the interests of 100's of millions of individuals worldwide.
* [IOTA and Evernym Launch Collaboration Aimed at Making the Internet of Things More Secure](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/08/31/1106292/0/en/IOTA-and-Evernym-Launch-Collaboration-Aimed-at-Making-the-Internet-of-Things-More-Secure.html)
* [Digital Identity Innovator Helps Non-Profits Get on the Identity Blockchain](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/09/25/1575928/0/en/Digital-Identity-Innovator-Helps-Non-Profits-Get-on-the-Identity-Blockchain.html)
>Evernym is opening its Accelerator program to Non Profit Organization (NPOs) applications. Evernym will waive the $50,000 membership fee it normally charges to participate in the program. A panel of judges will select the successful applicants. The first group of awards will be announced before December 2018 and will include 5 organizations. Further NPO cohorts are already planned for 2019.\
>The World Bank estimates over 1 billion persons, usually the most vulnerable, are without formal identity.
* [The Sovrin Foundation Names Cisco Founding Steward](https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/06/21/1527830/0/en/The-Sovrin-Foundation-Names-Cisco-Founding-Steward.html)
* [CULedger partners with decentralized identity innovator Evernym to create MyCUID](https://www.cuinsight.com/press-release/culedger-partners-decentralized-identity-innovator-evernym-create-mycuid)
* goal: to empower individuals with their personal data, thus helping them and their communities develop knowledge, make informed decisions, and interact more consciously and efficiently with each other as well as with organisations."
* [Consent](http://www.consent.global/)[[**ϟ**](https://sovrin.org/steward/global-consent/)] — "platform for trusted personal data applications and services, using Ethereum smart contracts to implement decentralized identifiers, verified credentials, consent receipts, a web of trust, and exchange of assets and value."
* [Legal Entity Identifier blockchained by a Hyperledger Indy implementation of GraphChain](http://www.graphchain.io/MTSR2018.pdf)
>The main idea behind GraphChain is to use blockchain mechanisms on top of an abstract RDF graphs. This paper presents an implementation of GraphChain in the Hyperledger Indy framework. The whole setting is shown to be applied to the RDF graphs containing information about Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).
* [Digital Identity Management in the Context of GDPR & Sovrin —Why Data Privacy Matters & How to Protect It](https://blog.tykn.tech/digital-identity-management-in-the-context-of-gdpr-sovrin-43028247378b)
* [Self-Sovereign Privacy By Design](https://github.com/sovrin-foundation/protocol/blob/master/self_sovereign_privacy_by_design_v1.md)
* [Privacy by Design The 7 Foundational Principles](https://www.ipc.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/Resources/7foundationalprinciples.pdf)
* [When GDPR Becomes Real, and Blockchain is no longer fairydust](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/gdpr.md)
* [A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Identity Management Utility Sovrin](https://dutchblockchaincoalition.org/uploads/pdf/Blockchain-Sovrin-rapport.pdf)
* [A position paper on blockchain enabled identity and the road ahead—Identity Working Group of the German Blockchain Association](https://www.bundesblock.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ssi-paper.pdf)
