[Openid-specs-ab] UserInfo Verifiable Credentials

[Jeremie Miller]

Hi Richard, welcome!

I'm in complete support of this, a quick read of the proposed draft looks
very complete already as well, great work and thank you!

Jer


On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 4:08 PM Richard Barnes (richbarn) via
Openid-specs-ab <openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> I’m Richard Barnes from Cisco.  I’m new to OpenID, but might be familiar
> to some folks from the IETF, where I’ve worked on crypto things like TLS,
> MLS, and ACME (and JOSE back in the day).
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> I wanted to bring to the group some proposed new work on “UserInfo
> Verifiable Credentials” that I’ve been working on with Kristina Yasuda,
> Pieter Kasselman, and Morteza Ansari.
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> MD: https://github.com/bifurcation/userinfo-vc/blob/main/userinfo-vc.md
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> HTML: https://bifurcation.github.io/userinfo-vc
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> The high-level idea here is to take the OpenID for Verifiable Credential
> Issuance spec and give it the same level of easy interoperability as OpenID
> Connect.  The generality of the VCI mechanism is powerful, but means the
> wallet and issuer need to agree on a bunch of details, each of which is a
> chance for interop failure.
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> Concretely, the proposal is to define a profile of VC and VCI that is
> tailored to OpenID Connect.  A “UserInfo VC” carries the same claims that
> are provided by the UserInfo endpoint, wrapped as a VC.  The issuance
> process is just VCI with certain knobs pre-set (e.g., proof of possession
> is always via a JWT).
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> We would love to see this work adopted by this WG.  In any case, feedback
> welcome!
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> Thanks,
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> --Richard
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