27 posts tagged with "yivi"

Two months ago we announced end-to-end OpenID4VC support in private beta. With Yivi 8.0 and irmago 1.0 shipping today, those protocols reach production — and the foundation underneath them has finally caught up.

This release is the structural moment Yivi stops being an IRMA wallet that speaks OpenID and becomes a credential-format-agnostic wallet that happens to also speak IRMA. It is the single biggest milestone in our transition toward a crypto-agile EUDI wallet.

With irmago 1.0 (currently in beta), the command-line tool you've been calling irma is shipped as yivi, and the Go package that issuer and verifier requestor servers import has moved with it. This post is for anyone running irma server, irma session, or the Docker image in production, and for anyone whose service imports github.com/privacybydesign/irmago to construct or sign session requests — what changes, what stays the same, and how to migrate.

After shipping OpenID4VP support last year and migrating all Privacy by Design issuers to SD-JWT VCs earlier this year, today we're closing the loop: Yivi now supports both OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP. Issuers and verifiers can integrate with Yivi entirely using open standards.

We're opening a private BETA and inviting organizations to be among the first to integrate.

We're pleased to announce that all Privacy by Design Foundation issuers now issue SD-JWT Verifiable Credentials alongside traditional Idemix credentials. This marks a significant milestone in Yivi's transition to becoming a fully EUDI-compliant wallet.

We're excited to announce a new feature that makes managing your digital identity even simpler: you can now issue your phone number and email address without ever leaving the Yivi app.

We're thrilled to announce that Yivi now supports ID-cards and Dutch Driver Licenses as credentials. This expansion significantly broadens Yivi's international reach and makes the platform more accessible to users worldwide.

According to our mission, we are committed to transparency and accountability. This post-mortem is part of that commitment, detailing the events surrounding the outage of the 7th of January 2026.

Summary of the impact​

We experienced significant degradated user experience on the 7th of January 2026, which affected our services for approximately 4 hours. During this time, users experienced inconsistent success rates in onboarding the Yivi app and or issuing credentials to them. The issue was caused by key rotation of the Yivi scheme and successive issues which arose from rotating the key.

A few months ago, we announced our plans to become an EUDI wallet while still retaining our original privacy-by-design technology.

Since that announcement, we've come a long way, and today it's time to announce the release of the first major step towards true crypto agility: the support for the OpenID4VP protocol and the SD-JWT VC credential format in the Yivi app. In this blog, we'll dive into how we did this and what it means for you.

We are announcing the release of the Trusted Verifier on the 24th of September!

Trusted Verifiers marks a crucial step forward in our mission to enhance the security and reliability of digital identity verification within the Yivi ecosystem. It also secures the long term sustainability of the Yivi project.

We are excited to announce the BETA release of Yivi Passport credentials!
This new feature allows users to securely store and manage their digital passports within the Yivi wallet, enhancing convenience and accessibility for travelers. With this release, Yivi expands its reach to a truly international audience.