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bcgov / aries-vcr-issuer-agency

A scalable, multi-tenanted issuer service based on Aries Cloudagent Python to facilitate issuing verifiable credentials to an Aries VCR instance.
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How does a VCR controller work #1

Closed vongohren closed 3 years ago

vongohren commented 3 years ago

I just got introduced to VCR by Stephen earlier today. And I realized this is a VCR issuer.

Does it exist any drawings on how this works? Is this part of a way to make credentails public? That was the thought that struck me atleast.

esune commented 3 years ago

Hey there! 🙂

I do not have diagrams yet, since I am still developing and tweaking this. You can check-out the design document here: https://hackmd.io/@esune/BJxS4mC0P For aries-vcr please check out: https://github.com/bcgov/aries-vcr

The way this is designed it is a managed ACA-Py agency, with a controller that acts as proxy for requests coming from consumers. As you noticed, it is aries-vcr specific meaning it is targeted to entities that want to issue credential to an instance of aries-vcr. This is partially because of our current primary use-case, and partially to scope the work a bit in order to make it easier. It should however be easy/possible to integrate functionality to issue to other agents that are not targeting aries-vcr, this functionality will likely be coming sometime in the future.

esune commented 3 years ago

Closing, please feel free to reopen if necessary.