W3C Verifiable Credentials data model¶
W3C. (2025). W3C Verifiable Credentials data model.
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Mechanisms¶
- Claim Certificate or Verifiable Credential
- The discipline is to attest the narrowest claim that answers the question, keep a working revocation path, and prefer selective-disclosure or predicate presentations
This sourceVerifiable-credential practice favors minimal or abstract claims, machine-checkable status and revocation, and selective disclosure of only the information needed.
- The discipline is to attest the narrowest claim that answers the question, keep a working revocation path, and prefer selective-disclosure or predicate presentations
- Privacy-Preserving Verification
- Its central limitation is that a proof authenticates the statement, not the truth of the inputs behind it: if the issuer signs a false attribute, the proof is still valid, so the mechanism inherits its issuer's integrity wholesale — the classic oracle problem.
This sourceStates that credential verification authenticates an issuer's statement without establishing the truth of its claims, leaving truth dependent on trust in the issuer.
- Its central limitation is that a proof authenticates the statement, not the truth of the inputs behind it: if the issuer signs a false attribute, the proof is still valid, so the mechanism inherits its issuer's integrity wholesale — the classic oracle problem.
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