<\/span><\/h2>\nDigital credentials are cryptographically verifiable paperwork. The commonest rising use case for digital credentials is identification paperwork comparable to driver’s licenses, passports, or nationwide ID playing cards. Within the coming years, it’s anticipated that Android builders will develop progressive functions of this expertise for a wider vary of non-public credentials that customers might want to current digitally, together with schooling certifications, insurance coverage insurance policies, memberships, permits, and extra.<\/p>\n
Digital credentials could be offered by any put in Android app. These apps are generally known as “credential holders”; usually digital pockets apps comparable to Google Pockets or Samsung Pockets.<\/p>\n
Different apps not essentially regarded as “wallets” may additionally have a use for exposing a digital credential. For instance an airline app may need to provide their customers’ air miles reward program membership as a digital credential to be introduced to different apps or web sites.<\/p>\n
Digital credentials could be introduced by the person to every other app or web site on the identical system, and Android additionally helps securely presenting Digital Credentials between gadgets utilizing the identical business customary protocols utilized by passkeys (CTAP), by establishing encrypted communication tunnels.<\/p>\n
Customers can retailer a number of credentials throughout a number of apps on their system. By leveraging OpenID4VP requests from web sites utilizing the W3C Digital Credential API, or from native apps utilizing Android Credential Supervisor API, a person can choose what credential to current from throughout all obtainable credentials throughout all put in digital pockets apps.<\/p>\n
<\/span>How digital credentials work<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/span>Presentation<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nTo current the credential, the verifier sends an OpenID4VP request to the Digital Credential API, which then prompts the person to pick a credential throughout all of the credentials that may fulfill this request. Word that the person is deciding on a credential, not a digital pockets app:<\/p>\n
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Digital credentials choice interface<\/em><\/center><\/imgcaption><\/image><\/p>\nAs soon as the person chooses a credential to proceed with, Android platform redirects the unique OpenID4VP request to the digital pockets app that holds the chosen credential to finish the presentation again to the verifier. When the digital pockets app receives the OpenID4VP request from Android, it could actually additionally carry out any further due-diligence steps it must carry out previous to releasing the credential to the verifier.<\/p>\n
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