Which library to "play" with?

[lemoustachiste]

Hi @OR13,

I am interested in exploring how this selective disclosure approach works.

In my research I have come across different projects that seem related/similar, but with different degrees of activity, so I was wondering which should I use to explore as proof of concept between this current repo, this one: https://github.com/w3c-ccg/Merkle-Disclosure-2021 and this one: https://github.com/transmute-industries/verifiable-data/tree/main/packages/merkle-proof?

Are you also open to contributions/collaborations or should those happen through the proper W3C charter?

Thanks

[OR13]

I built this over the holidays, https://github.com/transmute-industries/merkle-proof

It's maybe a bit easier to understand and provides visualizations of merkle proofs.

W3C is not the right place to attempt to standardize Merkle Proof Encodings for JSON or CBOR.

IETF COSE and JOSE working groups are the right place.

There is already some work underway to support COSE

ietf-scitt/draft-birkholz-scitt-receipts#15

https://certificate.transparency.dev/

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9162

The problem is that folks keep overfitting the merkle proof standards to use cases, and then we don't end up with generic compact representations for merkle proofs that work for any use case that rely on JSON or CBOR encodings.

[lemoustachiste]

Thanks, I'll take a look at all that today