decentralized-id.github.io/indy-sovrin-evernym

Awesome Hyperledger Indy Resources

Protocol, Governance, Education, Ecosystem

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 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.

Since the information is all inter-related, there is some overlapp. Skipping back and forth may be required, depending on your particular interests.

Pull Requests and\or Contributions Welcome

Contents

• Introduction
  • Link Shorthand
• Self Sovereign Identity—SSI
• Evernym
• The Sovrin Foundation
  • Sovrin Stewards
  • Selected Articles Windley.com
• Hyperledger Indy
  • Indy Github Repositories
  • Additional Indy Related
  • Wallets
  • Zero Knowledge Proof in Indy
• W3C and DID Related Standards
  • DID the Decentralized Identifier
  • DID Auth
  • Verifiable Claims
  • Decentralized Key Management (Agents)
• The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
• BCGov's Verifiable Organizations Network (VON)
• Evernym-Sovrin-Indy Adoption
• Hyperledger Global Forum—2018
• GDPR
• Research Papers
• Reports
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Sources

Introduction^

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.

Additional history and related information may be found at /awesome-decentralized-id.

---

Link Shorthand^

[T]witter • [G]ithub • [B]log • [wp] whitepaper • [D]ocumentation • [F]orums • [C]hat • [tele]gram • [web]site • [ϟ] related resource • [>] related section • [>>] related section on awesome-decentralized-id • [^] back to the contents.

Self Sovereign Identity^ >>

Christopher Allen[info] details the overarching history of internet idenitity standards and outlines 10 Principles of Self Sovereign Identity in his seminal work The Path to Self-Soverereign Identity[ϟ]

• 7 Myths of Self Sovereign Identity
• Inevitable Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity
• SSIMeetup [S] [V] [tele] - SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards.
• /awesome-decentralized-id/self-sovereign-identity —Much additional SSI information

0/ “Self-Sovereign Identity: A Progress Report”…

— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) April 25, 2018

Evernym^

• Evernym[T] originally created the Sovrin codebase, founded in 2013.
• Identity System Essentials 3/16 (Original Evernym Identity WP submitted to ID2020\RWoT workshop)
• Outlier Ventures invests in, becomes strategic partner of Evernym[ϟ]
• The Three Models of Digital Identity Relationships — How self-sovereign identity (SSI) is different, and why it’s better

The Sovrin Foundation^

• [F]orum • [C]hat • [T]witter • [G]ithub • [tele]gram • [web]site
• Founded in September 2016, The Sovrin Foundation is creating a public instance of the Sovrin\Indy codebase; initially developed by Evernym
• Sovrin Library
• Getting Started with Sovrin
• Sovrin: A Protocol and Token for Self-Sovereign Identity and Decentralized Trust
• Sovrin Network: What Goes on the Ledger?
• Sovrin Governance Framework
• How Sovrin Works: A Technical Guide from the Sovrin Foundation [ϟ]
• Sovrin Test Network Trust Anchor Registration[F]
• Sovrin Main Net Outage, December 2018

  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

Sovrin Stewards^

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 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.

Aalto University • Absa Group Limited • Amihan Global Strategies • ARTiFACTS • Attinad Software • ATB Financial • Best Innovation Group • BakerHostetler • Cisco • Certisign • Crypto Valley Association • CULedger • Danube Tech • Datum • Desert Financial Credit Union • Digicert • Digital Bazaar • estatus AG • Evernym • European Business Process Institute • Finicity • First Education Credit Union • Global Consent • IBM • InfoCert • iRespond • KYC Chain • lab10 collective • OAS Staff Federal Credit Union • Perkins Cole • ProSapien • Qiy Foundation • Royal Credit Union • SICPA • SITA • Spark New Zealand • Swisscom Blockchain • T-Labs • The City of Osmio • TNO • Truu • TwinPeek • Tykn • Veridium

Selected articles Windley.com [^]

• windley.com/tags/sovrin
• An Internet for Identity
• A Universal Trust Framework
• Building Your Business on Sovrin: Domain-Specific Trust Frameworks
• The Sovrin Foundation
• Decentralization in Sovrin
• Self-Sovereign Identity and the Legitimacy of Permissioned Ledgers
• The Sovrin Ecosystem (Disambiguating between Evernym, Sovrin, and Indy)

Hyperledger Indy^

^{Linux Foundation -Blockchain for Business -INDY}

• Hyperledger Indy - Distributed Ledger and Utility Library [T] [C]
• Indy Documentation Index - wiki.hyperledger.org
  • indy.readthedocs.io (under construction)
  • Indy Docs Framwork
• Introduction to Hyperledger Indy (awesome resource from hyperledger github)
• Hyperledger Indy — the Future of Decentralized Identity
• Hyperledger Welcomes Project Indy - ANN
• The Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity - Hyperledger Indy
• Ernesto.net - What goes on the Ledger
• Ernesto.net - Hyperledger Indy Architecture
• github.com/IBM-Blockchain-Identity (Docker based tutorial sandbox env)
• The Linux Foundation's Blockchain for Business course may be freely audited and has a section about Indy.
• Blockchain development made easy: Getting started with Hyperledger Indy - Interview with Daniel Hardman[G][L][T], Hyperledger Indy maintainer

Indy Github Repositories^

• /indy-plenum - Byzantine Fault Tolerant Protocol [wiki]

  "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."

  • Storage components - As of now, RocksDB is used as a key-value database for all Storages.
• /indy-sdk - Everything needed to build applications that interact with an Indy distributed identity ledger.
  • MAINTAINERS.md
• /indy-node - The server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity.
• /indy-anoncreds - Anonymous credentials protocol implementation in python
• /indy-agent - reference agents and associated tools.
• /indy-test-automation - Automation tools for testing of Indy Project components.
• /indy-post-install-automation
• /indy-hipe - Hyperledger Indy Project Enhancements
  • https://indy.readthedocs.io/projects/hipe/en/latest/
• /indy-crypto - shared crypto library for Hyperledger Indy components. To be:
• /ursa [ϟ][ϟ] "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 will help other platforms better incorporate and use ZKP-based credentials and leverage Sovrin for their identity component." (From Nathan George on Sovrin Telegram) [wiki]

Additional Indy Related^

• Hyperledger Identity Working Group-paper
• HyperledgerIndyWGCall_2018-12-06 Discussion of VON and Plenum Docs (w info-graphics)
• A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems
• An Accumulator Based on Bilinear Maps and Efficient Revocation for Anonymous Credentials
• An Efficient System for Non-transferable Anonymous Credentials with Optional Anonymity Revocation
• sovrin-foundation/connector-app - Reference mobile edge agent for use with the Sovrin Network built from Hyperledger Indy.
• Building binaries of LibIndy for Android
• HIPE 0014-ssi-notation
• Set up Indy Pool in Local Linux Environment Using Docker
• Learn how to set up a DEV Environment with Vagrant on Hyperledger Indy!
• Semantics Working Group Shared Docs
  • Verifiable Credentials, Schema and Overlays- Overview Decks
• Indy August Update - Most recent report from the Hyperledger Indy team.

Wallets ^

• How to build a Self Sovereign Identity Wallet
• https://github.com/streetcred-id/indy-sdk-storage

Zero Knowledge Proofs in Indy ^

^{Privacy Preserving Authentication—Another reason to care about ZKP}

• The Sovrin Network and Zero Knowledge Proof - high level walk through
• AnonCreds: Anonymous credentials protocol implementation in python [ϟ]
  • Relationship Diagram
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity with Clare Nelson
• Anonymous Credentials: Claims and Proofs in a Developer-friendly Format - Mike Lodder

Our zero-knowledge proofs are part of the Idemix protocol, where they are used to prove the possession of Camenisch-Lysyanskaya credentials. We also use zero-knowledge proofs in the revocation protocol, which is based on cryptographic accumulators. —What Zero Knowledge Poof Algorithm is used in Sovrin?

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?

• IBM Identity Mixer [B]
  • idemix in Hyperledger Fabric
• ABC4Trust—Attribute-based Credentials for Trust
• Concepts and Features of Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Credentials
• Concepts and Languages for Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Authentication
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Starter Pack (Not ID related)

^{The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org[ϟ]}

W3C and DID Related Standards^ >>

• World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) [T] [G]
• Credentials Community Group[B]
• JSON-LD 1.0, W3C Recommendation

DID the Decentralized Identifier^ >>

• w3c- Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.11
  • Authors:
    • Drummond Reed [T] (Evernym)
    • Manu Sporney[T] (Digital Bazaar)
    • Dave Longley (Digital Bazaar)
    • Christopher Allen [info] (Blockstream)
    • Ryan Grant
    • Markus Sabadello (Peacekeeper) [T][G][B] (Danube Tech)
• DID Primer [ϟ]
• Decentralized IDentifers (DIDs)
• Requirements for DIDs
• Peer DID Method Spec

DID Auth^

^{The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org[ϟ]}

• DID Auth and the Little I-am-Me
• Introduction to DID Auth [ϟ]

^{http://ssimeetup.org/introduction-did-auth-markus-sabadello-webinar-10}

Verifiable Claims^

• Verifiable Claims Working Group [D]
• Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0 [G] [D]
• Verifiable Credentials 101 for SSI – Tyler Ruff – Webinar 11

Decentralized Key Management-Agents^

• Decentralized Key Management (DKMS): An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle - Drummond Reed
• Recommendations for Decentralized Key Management Systems
• Agent to Agent Communication: Daniel Hardman explains the goals of agent to agent communication

Decentralized Identity Foundation^ >>

On May 22 at Consensus 2017 the formation of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) was announced:

• Conensus 2017 - Building an Foundation for Decentralized Identity (video)
• Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) [G] [T] [B]
• Decentralized Identity Foundation Grows To 56 Members In Our First Year
• Identity Hubs Capabilities Perspective - Identity Hubs currently proposed in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) are a subset of a general Decentralized Identifier (DID).
  • On DIF Hubs and Sovrin Agents
• A Universal Resolver for self-sovereign identifiers [G] [>]
  • uniresolver.io
• 6/27 Masterclass on the DID Universal Resolver | Identiverse 2018

BCGov's Verifiable Organizations Network VON^

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]

• Verified Organization Network [G] [D] [ϟ] [>]
  • "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[G] that lists entities with their associated public verifiable claims.
• Pan-Canadian Trust Framework
• Demonstrating the Verifiable Organizations Network (VON)
• BC.gov Verifiable Organizations Network Demo (video)
• VON’s Blockchain Basis
• Getting Started with Hyperledger Indy
• BCGov Verifiable Organization Network – Impressive Client Demo
• bcdevexchange.org/opportunities
• BCovrin - Indy TestNet

The Government of British Columbia and the Government of Ontario have already rolled out a production system using the Sovrin Network for business registration and licensing; together they've issued over 6 million credentials, according to Windley. - How Blockchain may Kill the Password

Evernym-Sovrin-Indy Adoption^

• Tykn The Future of Resilient Identity [T][G][D] (Indy\Sovrin)
  • Why we use Sovrin
• Illinois Blockchain Initiative — partners with Evernym to launch birth registration pilot
• News Release: DHS S&T Awards $749K to Evernym for Decentralized Key Management Research and Development (Department of Homeland Security)
• Cordenity: Evernym and R3 Partner to make Corda compatible with Indy [G][D]
• Sovrin Foundation, Ontology and Evernym Collaborate on Interoperable Decentralized Identity Networks[ϟ]
• SecureKey Technologies to explore interoperability between Verified.Me and Hyperledger Indy
• Evernym rolls with auto industry association MOBI to promote SSI in automotive and IoT
• 15 Industry Leaders Join Evernym’s Global Accelerator to Build the Future of Digital Identity.

  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
• Digital Identity Innovator Helps Non-Profits Get on the Identity Blockchain

  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
• CULedger partners with decentralized identity innovator Evernym to create MyCUID
• Self Sovereign Identity and MyData
  • Mydata [T] [D] [D]
    • 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[ϟ] — "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

  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).

• What the EEA and Hyperledger Collaboration Means for Enterprise Blockchain Development
• IXO World - Guided by the UN framework of 17 Global Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all, by the year 2030. [ϟ]

  "Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals demands embracing the data revolution " UN Secretary - General (2014)

• 
• 
• 

Hyperledger Global Forum—2018 ^

Basel Congress Center — Basel, Switzerland — December 12-15,2018

Official Links ^

• https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/hyperledger-global-forum-2018/
• https://hgf18.sched.com/
• Youtube Playlist
  • How Individuals are Taking Ownership of their Digital Identity
  • MyCuID: Blockchains, Credentials and Credit Unions - Julie Esser, CULedger
  • Panel Discussion: Where Are We Now with Identity? - Moderated by Heather Dahl, The Sovrin Foundation
  • To Authenticate or Validate, That is The Question - Avesta Hojjati, DigiCert Inc
  • Live Demo of Omnitude Using Hyperledgy Indy and Fabric - James Worthington, Omnitude
  • Cross Ledger Portable Identity with Indy and Corda - Mike Ward, R3
  • Panel Discussion: Is Blockchain GDPR Ready? - Moderated by Phillip Windley, Sovrin Foundation
  • SDK Proxy: Hyperledger Fabric Identities for Lightweight IoT Devices
  • Overview: Agents and Hyperledger Indy - Kyle Den Hartog, Evernym - Part 1
  • Overview: Agents and Hyperledger Indy - Kyle Den Hartog, Evernym - Part 2
  • Hands-On with Verifiable Organizations Network based on Hyperledger Indy - Part 1
  • Hands-On with Verifiable Organizations Network based on Hyperledger Indy - Part 2

Unofficial Transcripts ^

I think I've arranged all of the identity related talks in the previous section, except for the following two.

For my own convinience, and for anyone else who would like to browse the text, I've worked on the transcripts a bit to make the content easier to reference.

I'll do this for any other "essential" videos containing information that isn't widely available elsewhere, and am open to recommendations.

If you have any videos you'd like to see transcripts prepared in the following format, feel free to contact me.

• Microledgers and Edge-Chains - Daniel Hardman - Evernym
• Verifiable Organizations Network: A Production Government Deployment of Hyperledger Indy

EU General Data Protection Regulation Act ^ >>

• Digital Identity Management in the Context of GDPR & Sovrin —Why Data Privacy Matters & How to Protect It
• Implementing Privacy by Design in Hyperledger Indy
• Self-Sovereign Privacy By Design
• Privacy by Design The 7 Foundational Principles
• When GDPR Becomes Real, and Blockchain is no longer fairydust
• Is Self-Sovereign Identity the ultimate GDPR compliance tool? [1\3] [2] [3]
• Privacy by Design in Hyperledger Indy

Research Papers^ >>

• A Conceptual Analysis on Sovrin
• Evernym Research Collection 2016 Archive
• Matching Identity Management Solutions to Self Sovereign Identity Solutions
• A First Look at Identity Management Schemes on the Blockchain

Reports^ >>

• A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Identity Management Utility Sovrin
• White Paper: Canada’s Digital ID Future - A Federated Approach
• IDENTITY MATTERS
• A position paper on blockchain enabled identity and the road ahead—Identity Working Group of the German Blockchain Association

Video^ >>

• Meet the Sovrin Foundation
• Hyperledger Indy Explainer Video
• Phil Windley on the Sovrin Network
• Self-Sovereign Identity with Hyperledger Indy\Sovrin- Calvin Cheng - FOSSASIA 2018
• Hyperledger Indy introduction with Indy Agents Demo
• Hyperledger Indy Demo Screencast
• Architectural Overview of Indy Wallets
• Indy Demo by IBM
• Behind the Cloud Episode 6: Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity in the Enterprise
• Evernym's contributions to Hyperledger Indy
• Introduction to Indy Plenum Architecture
• Hyperledger Indy Working Group Calls
• Sovrin: Public, Permissioned and Still Decentralized - Nathan George
• Hyperledger Global Forum - Video

Podcasts^ >>

• MyData Podcast

Sources^ >>

• Evernym
• Sovrin Foundation
• wiki.hyperledger.org - indy
• SSI Meetup [V][SS]
• windley.com/tags/sovrin
• /WebOfTrustInfo
• /peacekeeper/blockchain-identity
• /awesome-decentralized-id

---

Contact Me for Research Based Content—infominer.id

Check out the Crypto SuperSource Discord Server, if you'd like to chat or discover our other crypto-resources.

Tips Welcome

BTC— 1GvkjHtiy9LUjVkStnEAXxjhcoS56aCokY

DOGE— DSzMxfABB8EwKiumzV7YHhS7HTvWAyM7QF