Create and update public verifiable credentials #23
Description
Description
The library should expose methods to create, sign, and verify claims about the identity.
TODO:
- Define verifiable credential structure.
- JWT v. JSON-LD: JWT is neater with less convoluted (and/or irrelevant) syntax. But, JWT is a base64 encoded blob -- you can't see the content unless you decode it, which is potentially a problem or limitation for potential searchable public credentials
- Consider JWT for 'private' claims (ES256 alg in header for asymmetric decoding) and JSON-LD for public?
- JSON-LD VC structure would follow the W3C Verifiable Claims standard, and use a W3C signature suite for a LD signature.
- Which one could best be expanded to handle multisig situations? uPort goes with array of JWT to represent multi-sig. Possibility: set IPFS claim hashes into IPLD as merkle-dags for multisig?
- Refactor DID class to include method for creating, signing, and verifying verifiable credential.
- typechecking in method for valid DID?
- Add DID interface