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The specifications below belong to the series 'vc-data-model'
Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.1
Working Draft- Tags
- Privacy
- Security
- Deliverers
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
A verifiable credential is a specific way to express a set of claims made by an issuer, such as a driver's license or an education certificate. This specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials, how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders, and verifiers. This document also covers a variety of security, privacy, internationalization, and accessibility considerations for ecosystems that use the technologies described in this specification.
Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0
Recommendation- Tags
- Privacy
- Security
- Deliverers
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
- Translation for Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0
- 中文（简体）
Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver's licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1
Recommendation- Tags
- Privacy
- Security
- Deliverers
- Verifiable Credentials Working Group
Driver's licenses are used to claim that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to claim our education status, and government-issued passports enable holders to travel between countries. This specification provides a standard way to express these sorts of claims on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and automatically verifiable.