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[SIOP] Consider revising identity wallet term #11

Closed OR13 closed 5 years ago

OR13 commented 5 years ago

SIOP is for getting an id_token that is linked to a DID. While many will want to store the DID keys in a wallet, from a protocol perspective, thats not relevant, the keys used to prove control of a DID can be stored anywhere, and the ability to produce a valid challenge + response JWTs is the only thing that matters.

It might be worth a short paragraph to highlight this, since technically I can use SIOP from a shell script, there is no requirement to use QRCodes or Mobile Wallets, those are UX.

HTTP is a requirement however.

awoie commented 5 years ago

I will replace all occurrences of Identity Wallet with SIOP and I will explain that an SIOP could be any of the following elements in this non-exhaustive list: