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date: 2020-01-10
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name: Verifiable Credentials
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layout: standards
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headings: ["About","Comparisons","Working Group","Credentials Community Group","Claims and Credentials WG","Development","Varieties","Interoperability","Literature","Use Case","User Experience"]
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title: "Verifiable Credentials"
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description: a standard way to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
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excerpt: >
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Verifiable credentials (VCs) are the electronic equivalent of the physical credentials that we all possess today, such as: plastic cards, passports, driving licenses, qualifications and awards, etc. The data model for verifiable credentials is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, "Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 - Expressing verifiable information on the Web" published 19 November 2019.
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tags: ["W3C","Verifiable Credentials","Credentials Community Group","VC-WG","JSON-LD","OAuth","FIDO","Claims and Credentials WG"]
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categories: ["Web Standards"]
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permalink: web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/
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header:
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image: /images/verifiable-credentials_head.webp
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caption: "[Verifiable Credentials Data Model](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/)"
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teaser: /images/verifiable-credentials-teaser.webp
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redirect_from:
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- web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/
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- web-standards/vc-wg/
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- web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/
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- web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/adoption/
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- web-standards/w3c/vc-wg/verifiable-credentials/
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- specs-standards/verifiable-credentials/
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- web-standards/verifiable-credentials/
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- specs-standards/verifiable credentials/
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last_modified_at: 2023-05-08
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---
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