To support digital interactions in which information about the identity must be shared with third parties the identity needs to proof that it has has ownership of certain attestations or attributes. (claims)

Those third parties can then use the presented cryptographically protected proof (claims) to verify the ownership and trustworthiness of the claims about the identity.

As the presentation of the Verifiable Claims is managed totally by the users, they can decide on which specific pieces of information about themselves they want to share with third parties. With this selective disclosure of attributes privacy and personal data protection is reinforced.