Digital trust and identity – Part 3: Digital credentials

Standards Development Organisation:

CIOSC

Contact Information:

Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI)

Working Program:

View the CIO SC work program

Designation Number:

CAN-CIOSC 103-3

Standard Type:

National Standard of Canada - Domestic

Standard Development Activity:

New Standard

ICS code(s):

35.030

Status:

Proceeding to development

SDO Comment Period Start Date:

2021-01-06

SDO Comment Period End Date:

2021-01-27

Posted On:

2020-12-18

Scope:

Note: CIO Strategy Council announced an organizational name change to the Digital Governance Council (DGC), effective January 30, 2023 and the creation of a new standards development division, Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI). This Part will specify minimum requirements and levels of assurance for expressing cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable digital credentials.

Project need:

Many existing online systems are morphing into interconnected, ad hoc and non-standard authentication and identity systems, which can be easily exploited by the criminal element and which can result in non-optimal balances between users, relying parties and authoritative parties. As one example, compromised username and password combinations used across several services purportedly by the same user may have devastating impacts, from credit card fraud and mobile device deactivations to compromise of, and re-use of online personal information and related data.

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