Aries

Aries
Graduated Decentralized Identity Verifiable Credentials

Type: Library

Hyperledger Aries is your complete toolkit for decentralized identity solutions and digital trust. Issue, store and present verifiable credentials with maximum privacy preservation, and establish confidential, ongoing communication channels for rich interactions. It supports multiple protocols, credential types, ledgers and registries. It has frameworks in multiple development languages, and interoperability tools and profiles to help everything work together seamlessly.

 

TOTAL COMMITS

"Aries for Social Impact: At Entidad, we're dedicated to creating robust digital infrastructure for nonprofits serving underserved communities. Aries empowers us to develop solutions with confidence and security, knowing they are supported by a trustworthy Aries community whose values resonate with ours."

Jorge Flores, Co-founder and CTO, Entidad

"My team builds solutions that incorporate decentralized identity and rely on Aries standards and projects. Aries provides a foundation that allows us to build or add onto solutions while making them easier to use, simplifying integration, protecting privacy, and enhancing security."

Mike Ebert, Enterprise Team Lead, Indicio

"We support the implementation of Aries derived from SSI. We spread the value of Web3 and provide Aries' mobile app, agent, and application services as SaaS services so that many people can easily adopt private certificates."

Jihye Ham, Project Manager, LG CNS

"As we use picos to develop decentralized applications, we are confident that DIDs and DIDComm v2 will help us identify the various actors and allow them to communicate securely with each other. We have followed the Aries community since its inception and are grateful for the technologies developed therein."

Bruce Conrad, affiliate, picolabs.io

Type: Key characteristics


Privacy

* Establish decentralized credential verification and decentralized connections—give the holder more control over their information, with no “phoning home”
* Support selective disclosure, so holders only have to share the minimum amount of information
* Support Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP), so something can be proven (e.g. over the age of majority) without revealing the information it’s based on (e.g. date of birth)

Confidential, Ongoing Connections

* Enjoy encrypted, decentralized peer-to-peer messaging (using DIDComm) by using confidential, ongoing relationships between parties
* Support more than just issuing and presenting credentials: proactively notify holders about revoked credentials, exchange messages, and much more

Ease of deployment

* Start using ready-to-use agent frameworks in Python, Rust, Go, JavaScript and others
* Build on multiple companion projects to get started quickly, such as Aries Mobile Agent React Native (Aries Bifold) for an open-standards smartphone wallet

Flexibility

* Leverage High-level APIs so you can easily adapt your solution in the future
* Support multiple credential types, including Hyperledger AnonCreds and W3C VCs

Community

* Leverage a well-established community with a wide range of active contributors, from individuals to large-scale organizations

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