The Self Sovereign Identity Service (SSIS) facilitates all things relating to DIDs and Verifiable Credentials -- in a box! The service is a part of a larger Decentralized Web Platform architecture which you can learn more about in our collaboration repo. The SSI Service is a HTTP-API driven web service that wraps the ssi-sdk. The core functionality of the SSIS includes, but is not limited to: interacting with the standards around Verifiable Credentials, Credential Revocations, requesting Credentials, exchanging Credentials, data schemas for Credentials and other verifiable data, messaging using Decentralized Web Nodes, and usage of Decentralized Identifiers. Using these core standards, the SSIS enables robust functionality to facilitate all verifiable interactions such as creating, signing, issuing, curating, requesting, revoking, exchanging, validating, verifying credentials in varying degrees of complexity.

For more information, see the vision document.

Configuration is managed using a TOML file. There are sets of configuration values for the server (e.g. which port to listen on), the services (e.g. which database to use), and each service. Each service may define specific configuration, such as which DID methods are enabled for the DID service.

Here is the sequence of events on how the SSI-Service consumes it's configuration

• On startup, the SSI-Service loads default values into the SSIServiceConfig
• It then checks for a toml config file
  • If one exists, it loads the toml file
  • If one does not exist, it uses a default config defined in the code inline
• Finally, it loads the config/.env file and adds the env variables defined in this file to the final SSIServiceConfig

This project uses mage, please view CONTRIBUTING for more information.

After installing mage, you can build and test the SDK with the following commands:

mage build
mage test

A utility is provided to run clean, build, and test in sequence with:

mage cbt

CI is managed via GitHub Actions. Actions are triggered to run for each Pull Request, and on merge to main. You can run CI locally using a tool like act.

The service is packaged as a Docker container, runnable in a wide variety of environments. Docker Compose is used for simplification and orchestration. To run the service, you can use the following command, which will start the service on port 8080:

mage run

Or, you can run docker-compose yourself:

cd build && docker-compose up --build

You should then be able to send requests as follows:

Note: port 3000 is used by default, specified in config.toml, for the SSI Service process. If you're running via mage run or docker compose, the port to access will be 8080.

The command below will give you a health check, if the status is OK then you are up.

 ~ curl localhost:3000/health
{"status":"OK"}

The command below will tell if you all the services (credential, did, and schema) are up and ready.

~ curl localhost:8080/readiness
{
    "status": {
        "status": "ready",
        "message": "all service ready"
    },
    "serviceStatuses": {
        "credential": {
            "status": "ready"
        },
        "did": {
            "status": "ready"
        },
        "schema": {
            "status": "ready"
        }
    }
}

You can find more HTTP endpoints by checking out the swagger docs at: http://localhost:8002/docs

Note: Your port by differ, the range of the ports for swagger are between 8002 and 8080.

The vision for the project is laid out in this document.

The project follows a proposal-based improvement format called SIPs, outlined here..

Please open a discussion or issue if you are interested in helping shape the future of the project.

• DID Management
  • did:key
  • did:web
  • did:ion
• Verifiable Credential Schema Management
• Verifiable Credential Issuance & Verification
  • Signing and verification with JWTs
  • Signing and verification with Data Integrity Proofs
• Applying for Verifiable Credentials using Credential Manifest
• Requesting, Receiving, and the Validation of Verifiable Claims using Presentation Exchange
• Status of Verifiable Credentials using the Status List 2021
• Creating and managing Trust documents using Trust Establishment
• DID Well Known Configuration documents