| Verifiable Credentials - Literature, Comparisons, Explainer (W3C) |
Verifiable Credentials |
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a standard way to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable. |
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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| Credentials Community Group |
| VC-WG |
| JSON-LD |
| Claims and Credentials WG |
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| Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identifiers |
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web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/ |
https://decentralized-id.com/web-standards/w3c/verifiable-credentials/ |
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| web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/ |
| web-standards/vc-wg/ |
| web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/ |
| web-standards/w3c/wg/vc/verifiable-credentials/adoption/ |
| web-standards/w3c/vc-wg/verifiable-credentials/ |
| specs-standards/verifiable-credentials/ |
| web-standards/verifiable-credentials/ |
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2023-08-29 |