Verifiable credentials provide a mechanism to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable. This specification provides data model and HTTP protocols to issue, verify, present, and manage data used in such an ecosystem.
This specification is highly experimental and changing rapidly. Implementation in non-experimental systems is discouraged unless you are participating in the weekly meetings that coordinate activity around this specification.
Comments regarding this document are welcome. Please file issues directly on GitHub, or send them to public-credentials@w3.org ( subscribe, archives).
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This section provides a basic overview of the major components of this specification's architecture.
A conforming VC HTTP API client is ...
A conforming VC HTTP API server is ...
The Working Group thanks the following individuals for their contributions to this specification: The final list of acknowledgements will be compiled at the end of the Candidate Recommendation phase.
Portions of the work on this specification have been funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security's Silicon Valley Innovation Program under contracts 70RSAT20T00000003, 70RSAT20T00000010, 70RSAT20T00000029, 70RSAT20T00000031, 70RSAT20T00000033, and 70RSAT20T00000043. The content of this specification does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Government and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Development of this specification has also been supported by the W3C Credentials Community Group, chaired by Kim Hamilton Duffy, Heather Vescent, and Wayne Chang.