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A digital passport. Verified once, usable everywhere.

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Installation

npm install @proof.com/proof-vc-common

The library provides 2 distinct browser and Node.js distributions, see package.json exports. The browser distribution has 0 dependencies

Getting Started

Proof implements the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations 1.0 specification. Setup an OAuth Application in your Proof account to get your client_id.

Initialize the library at the start of your application:

import { init } from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

init({
  environment: "sandbox",
  clientId: "verifier-demo",
  responseMode: "direct_post",
  callbackUri: "http://localhost/verify_vp_token",
});

Response Modes

Proof supports fragment and direct_post response modes.

fragment

Using fragment the vp_token is returned as a fragment of the callbackUri when the user is 302 redirected from Proof to your website.

GET http://localhost/verify_vp_token#vp_token=eyJwcm9vZl9pZF9...

direct_post

Using direct_post the vp_token is returned in the JSON body of a POST request to the callbackUri from Proof to your website. See the OID4VP specification for more details.

POST http://localhost/verify_vp_token
{ "vp_token": "eyJwcm9vZl9pZF9..." }

Pushed Authorization Requests

Proof supports Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR). You may want to use this feature when using Transaction Templates to avoid hitting URL size limits. Note that PAR is available only from the Node.js distribution.

init({
  environment: "sandbox",
  clientId: "caxdw5a7d",
  clientSecret: "…",
  responseMode: "direct_post",
  callbackUri: "http://localhost/verify_vp_token",
  usePushedAuthorizationRequest: true,
});

Verifiable Credential Presentation

Credential Type

Proof issues Verifiable Credentials according to the SD-JWT-VC specification and publishes its OID4VCI Credential Issuer Metadata at https://api.proof.com/.well-known/openid-credential-issuer.

ProofCredentialV1

claim type description
given_name string user's given name as it appears on the verified identity document
family_name string user's family name as it appears on the verified identity document
birthdate string user's date of birth in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD)
age_is_over.18 boolean boolean confirming the user is 18 or older
age_is_over.21 boolean boolean confirming the user is 21 or older
age_is_over.65 boolean boolean confirming the user is 65 or older

All attributes are selectively disclosable and will return undefined if the claim wasn't disclosed.

Request

Request a Verifiable Credential Presentation with an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request:

import { getAuthorizationRequestURL } from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

const redirect = await getAuthorizationRequestURL({
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
  scope: "urn:proof:params:scope:verifiable-credentials:basic",
  state: "6A2B4CD830",
  loginHint: "frodo.baggins@theshire",
});

window.location.href = redirect;

Scopes

Proof supports the scope parameter of the OID4VP specification. Each scope maps to a pre-defined DCQL query and returns a specific Credential Type.

Supported scope and their associated Credential Type:

scope Credential Type
urn:proof:params:scope:verifiable-credentials:basic ProofCredentialV1

Transaction Templates

Transaction Templates allow you to bind specific data to a Verifiable Credential Presentation. Proof uses the Transaction Data parameter of the OID4VP specification. The data is shown to the user during the Presentation flow and the user signs it with a Key Binding JWT (KB-JWT). The KB-JWT is returned as part of the Presentation.

The following Transaction Templates are available:

urn:proof:params:vc:transaction-data:wire-instructions:v1

import {
  getAuthorizationRequestURL,
  transactionData,
} from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

const data = transactionData.wireInstructions({
  recipient: {
    institution_name: "Crestline Financial",
    individual_name: "Acme Corp LLC",
    routing_number: "055000123",
    account_number: "7293",
  },
  source: {
    institution_name: "Sterling & Union",
    individual_name: "Sterling & Union",
    account_number: "4821",
    routing_number: "091000456",
  },
  amount: 5000,
  currency: "USD",
  memo: "Invoice #2024-089",
});
const redirect = await getAuthorizationRequestURL({
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
  scope: "urn:proof:params:scope:verifiable-credentials:basic",
  state: "6A2B4CD830",
  loginHint: "frodo.baggins@theshire",
  transactionData: data,
});

urn:proof:params:vc:transaction-data:payment-itemized:v1

import {
  getAuthorizationRequestURL,
  transactionData,
} from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

const data = transactionData.paymentItemized({
  title: "Drive Shaft",
  description: "The Roadhouse (18+), May 6 2026",
  currency: "USD",
  items: [
    { quantity: 2, unit_cost: 40.0, label: "General Admission" },
    { quantity: 2, unit_cost: 11.4, label: "Fees" },
  ],
});
const redirect = await getAuthorizationRequestURL({
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
  scope: "urn:proof:params:scope:verifiable-credentials:basic",
  state: "6A2B4CD830",
  loginHint: "frodo.baggins@theshire",
  transactionData: data,
});

urn:proof:params:vc:transaction-data:payment-mandate:v1

import {
  getAuthorizationRequestURL,
  transactionData,
} from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

const data = transactionData.paymentMandate({
  payment_instrument: {
    type: "wallet",
    id: "did:example:visa-token-7829",
    description: "Visa ••••7829",
  },
  payee: {
    id: "did:example:summitco",
    name: "Summit Co",
    website: "summitco.com",
  },
  prompt_summary:
    "Find me a 4-season backpacking tent from Summit Co under $500",
  amount: 500,
  currency: "USD",
});
const redirect = await getAuthorizationRequestURL({
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
  scope: "urn:proof:params:scope:verifiable-credentials:basic",
  state: "6A2B4CD830",
  loginHint: "frodo.baggins@theshire",
  transactionData: data,
});

Verify

Decode and verify a Verifiable Presentation's vp_token server-side:

import { init, verifyVPToken } from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

init({ trustRoot: "production" });

const vpToken = "eyJwcm9vZl9pZ...";
const presentation = await verifyVPToken({
  encodedVPToken: vpToken,
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
});
const verifiableCredential = presentation["proof_id_default"][0];

if (verifiableCredential.isOver18) {
  purchaseItem();
} else {
  userNotOver18();
}

Verify a single SD-JWT-VC:

import { init, verify } from "@proof.com/proof-vc-common";

init({ trustRoot: "production" });

const encodedSDJWT = "eyJraWQiOiI3...";
const verifiableCredential = await verify({
  encodedSDJWT,
  nonce: "3e8e4918-e9fb-453a-a538-81152be15c1b",
});

if (verifiableCredential.isOver18) {
  purchaseItem();
} else {
  userNotOver18();
}

Certificate Authority

Proof's Verifiable Credentials are issued by our Certificate Authority following the CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted TLS Server Certificates published at https://www.cabforum.org.

The Proof Root CA R1 Certificate is published at http://cert.proof.com/proof-root-ca-r1.crt and is also committed in this repository proof-root-ca-r1.crt.

The sandbox Root CA R1 Development certificate is also committed in this repository proof-root-ca-r1-development.crt and used when trustRoot: "development".

Documentation

Digital Credentials guides https://dev.proof.com/docs/digital-credentials-overview
API Documentation https://dev.proof.com/reference/authorizeverifiablecredentialpresentation

Contributing

Contribution guidelines for this project