The Authentic Source has two options on how to communicate with the Issuer:
- Authentic Source using Issuer to issue credentials
- Authentic Source using Datastore and Issuer to issue credentials
Difference between the two solutions
Some organisations that will participate in the piloting of the DC4EU use cases will have problems directly interconnecting with existing authentic sources to a new software component outside of their already established infrastructure. To work around these concerns DC4EU will also explore a scenario where the Authentic source can upload attributes needed to create a credential into a datastore. The datastore will act as the authentic source from an information storage point of view but should not contain any of the business logic that the authentic source might have or need. The goal with this approach is to make it easier for current security standards within piloting organisations to be followed and still enable the organisation to participate in the piloting of the DC4EU use cases.
