Mitigate Threats for Digital Credentials API

[simoneonofri]

Session description

This is an interactive session to understand how to mitigate a number of specific threats identified during the Federated Identity Working Group's recharter review for the addition of the Digital Credentials API:
a. Perpetuates sharing of personal data by making it more available via a browser API
b. Increased centralization through subtle tradeoffs
c. Content will be moved from the deep web to the “attributed deep web”
d. Exchanges user agency for greater compliance and convenience

This breakout is intended to be a collaborative, working session. The focus will be on gaining consensus on the mitigations.

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This breakout is intended to be a collaborative, working session. The focus will be on gaining consensus on the mitigations.

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#credential-threats

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#49, #12, #73, #93

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• 2024-09-25, 11:15 - 12:15

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[bumblefudge]

heh, the poor scribe trying to jot down the core argument of my scattered thoughts had to boil them down a bit-- hopefully there will be time to write out more cogent thoughts in future documents. i'm not entirely clear on whether this is a work item for the Threat Modeling WG or the FedID group-- either way my offer to contribute stands but a little herding through the w3c system to get the relevant meetings on my calendar would be appreciated!

[simoneonofri]

Hi @bumblefudge,

first of all, thank you very much for taking the notes. Much appreciated.

For the next steps:

• At the Formal Objection level I have called the Council and I am writing the Team Report.
• At the Threat Model, to contribute, is in the Threat Modeling Community Group repository, we need to plan a call about that, and that's the place for now. https://github.com/w3c-cg/threat-modeling/blob/main/models/decentralized-identities.md