Supported formats and protocols
GOV.UK Wallet will support multiple credential formats to represent government documents. These documents can be:
- mdoc based credentials for the digital driving licence
- other Verifiable Credentials (VCs), including W3C Verifiable Credential Data Model 2.0 and other formats allowing selective disclosure of attributes
It will also support multiple protocols for users to share credentials and attributes:
- OpenID for Verifiable Presentation (OID4VP) for online sharing, using remote flows to verify mdoc and VC based credentials
- ISO/IEC 18013-5 for in-person interactions, using proximity flows to verify mdoc based credentials
GOV.UK Wallet will first enable supervised proximity flow for verification in line with ISO/IEC 18013-5. Remote flows, and more details about OID4VP profiles, will be added in the future.
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