hyperledger indy distributed identity management
Hackathon Dublin: Decentralised Identity Sharing of health records
Scenario: This code implements a scenario where a refugee arrives into a country seeking asylum and the border patrol asks him to verify he made an important vaccanition recent enough to be valid.
The refugee can proove this get access without sharing any other medical information than (s)he made the rabies vaccination the vaccination is still valid The refugee could use his smartphone to initiate the process and show records The refugee will not need to rely on the goverment of his home country The refugee will not need an online connection to the party testfying that he did the vaccination
Roles in this scenario are:
Prover: the person to proove a claim Controls a wallet, a secret store the prover holds to control and access claims
Issuer: the organisation which validates a claim of the Prover can be goverment bodies, NGOs, hospitals or doctors
Schema Definition Provider: An Organisation, which provides Data formats for e.g. health data Typically, but necessarily this is a goverment body
A Verifier is the party to which the proover presents the proove. This could be a person like in our person the border or a software agent
Claims are Statements about the Identity of the Prover, controlled by the Provers wallet. operate on top of Data defined in Schemas consist of 2 parts: the data itself (e.g. being above a certain age) a data structure to handle revocations, e.g. a revoked driver license for drunk driving
The Solution is implemented on top of Hyperlederg Indy and Sovereign. Among other features this decentralised Identity Management will allow persons Define their Identity in different Relations from them to Issuer(s) Hence, separate parts of their identities such that no central entity knows all of them to not store personal identifiable data on the Blockchain, even if the cryptographty was broken only parts of the Identity not tied to a person are visible Generate claims over them, which are verified by Issuers, even though Issuers might not be reachable, this is possible by storing the Keys on the Ledger, which is always accessible
The solution is based on the concepts of Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs): https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/
The Solution Scenario Implemented could be transferred to a person, which has to conduct a lot of doctors visits, like e.g. a pregnant woman and wants a way to share her healthdata in a very efficient and secure manner
The solution was tested from a local macintosh with a testnetwork running on docker