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### Administrator

### AnonCreds

[AnonCreds](https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-spec/) (Anonymous Credentials) is a verifiable credential format that offers privacy-preserving features like selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs.

An administrator is a role who oversees the agent and releated resources, including tenant, Edge Agent management, or external services. Admistrator typically does not participate in day-to-day SSI interactions.

## C
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Allows you to create, retrieve, and manage issued [verifiable credentials (VCs)](#verifiable-credential) between a VC issuer and a VC holder.

## J

### JSON-LD

[JSON-LD](https://json-ld.org/spec/FCGS/json-ld/20130328/) (JSON for Linking Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

### JWT

[JWT](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519) (JSON Web Token) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.

### JWT-VC

[JWT-VC](https://identity.foundation/jwt-vc-presentation-profile/) (JSON Web Token for Verifiable Credentials, also known as VC-JWT) is a verifiable credential encoded as a JSON Web Token.

## K

### Keycloak Service
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## O

### OID4VC

[OID4VC](https://openid.net/sg/openid4vc/) (OpenID for Verifiable Credentials) is an overarching framework and suite of specifications defining how to use OpenID Connect for issuing and presenting verifiable credentials.

### OIDC

OIDC (OpenID Connect), is an authentication protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0. It enables secure user authentication and allows applications to obtain information about users, facilitating single sign-on (SSO) and identity verification in web and mobile applications.
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HashiCorp Vault is a widely used open-source and enterprise-grade solution designed for securely storing, accessing, and managing secrets and sensitive data in modern computing environments.
It offers a centralized platform for managing cryptographic keys, passwords, API keys, tokens, and other secrets.

### VCDM 1.1

[VCDM 1.1](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/) (W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model v1.1) is a standard data model specification for verifiable credentials.

### VCDM 2.0

[VCDM 2.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/) (W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0) is the updated standard data model specification for verifiable credentials, succeeding VCDM 1.1.

### Verifiable Credential (VC) {#verifiable-credential}

A verifiable credential is a tamper-evident credential that contains one or more claims made by an issuer whose authorship can be cryptographically verified. It is possible to use VCs to create a [verifiable presentation](#verifiable-presentation). Also, the claims in a VC can be about different subjects.
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