Anon Aadhaar 2024 Product Roadmap

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We're eager to make Anon Aadhaar more open, in tune with what the ecosystem needs, and collaborative with everyone. To bring in more input from our community, we'd love to hear your thoughts on our 2024 product roadmap!

Anon Aadhaar Roadmap for 2024

Anon Aadhaar Overview

Vision (Where we’d like to be)

• Become the de-facto open privacy layer for government identities around the world. Starting with India.
• Provide a platform for web2 and web3 devs to easily build applications on top of this

Strategy (How we’re approaching that)

• Focus on: easyness of use, good performance and partnerships building.
• Partner with key organizations and Indian community.
• Eventually finding our way towards government.

Target Users (To whom are we building for)

• Indian devs interested in the identity space
• Individuals, companies and orgs involved in the identity space
• Privacy-concerned individuals and orgs who want to push this space forward

Major decision points

• Do we focus on “vertical improvements/micro domain” specifically targeted at making Anon Aadhaar better or do we focus on “horizontal expandability/macro domain” that allows to easily expand to other countries, fork, etc?
• Do we need to have an "identity aggregator" or can Anon Aadhaar et al be incorporated into other projects?

This was the major topic of conversation during our planning workshops and we’ll have to “pivot” wherever we see more adoption opportunities / value delivery to the ecosystem.

Anon Aadhaar 2024 Project Plan

Our efforts can be divided into 5 categories:

🤩 Developer Experience (make it easy aka Roadmap/Features): documentation, CLI, boilerplate, templates, SDK.

🏍️ Performance Improvements (make it better aka Research & Experimental): research & implementation for performance: proving time, verification cost, key size, etc.

⭐ New Features (support new flows): expanding new use cases like allowing to prove more data, integrations, etc.

🛡️ Security Improvements (make it more secure): trusted setups, securing our code pipeline, providing mechanisms for user’s data security and revocation, etc.

🎓 Adoption, Education & Community (make it used): website, hackathons, talks, tutorials, etc.

2024 Q1

• 🎓 Publish our roadmap on GitHub
• ⭐ Custom Data (Circom extractor)
  • Allows you to proof custom data / arbitrary data from your PDF.
  • Enables proving specific user data like: location, age, gender, etc.
• ⭐ Nullifier V2
  • On 2023 Q4 we released a first version on the nullifier which was limited, this will create a more secure version.
• ⭐ Custom Data Signing

The points above wrap up “version 2”. Then we’ll do:

• 🛡️ Exploration on preventing the use of “forged”/”stolen” documents.
• 🛡️ Run a trusted Setup Ceremony for v2
• 🤩  Build new documents and tutorials for tech and non tech people to showcase v2 capabilities.
• Perform a new product, user and community research to inform our direction for Q2-Q4:

🧪 Product Research:
- Better explore Indian products in this space (DigiLocker, etc) and desired flows.
- Mapping Others Countries Schemes that might be easier to integrate.

🗣️ User Research

• User interviewing relevant targets could be interesting as well.

🎓 Community Engagements

- Hold an Indian panel/consultant group to pitch or evaluate our ideas.
- Build meetups with other teams invested in the DID space.

2024 Q2

🏍️ Performance

• Explore different approaches to increase the performance of Anon Aadhaar
• First, define performance targets: proving time, verification cost, key size, supported target devices.
  • Current state: 10-15s with browser in good computer and good internet connection, 20-30s in mobile.
• Then, explore the most promising directions to achieve those targets:
  • Optimizing current circuits
  • Switching proving protocol to achieve linear time proving
  • Explore Native Mobile Prover for better performance (mobpro)
  • Analyze lookup singularity for RSA verify
  • Research recursive Proving / Folding schemes that address the target
• ⭐ Accessibility
  • Improvements to expand support to new target devices:
    • React Native lib
    • Explore mobile proving framework such as mopro
    • Improve back end of proving system: runable on mobile or IoT devices.
• 🚀 UX/DX
  • Explore different ways to interact with Aadhaar systems:
    • New ways to extract information from identity card like NFC tapping or sensor reading?
    • APIs from different web2 systems (i.e. Digilocker)
    • Exploring current OTP / SMS flows
  • Do another round of feedback for SDK understandability from devs.
• 🎓 Hackathon
  • With Devfolio/Indian orgs

2024 Q3

• ⭐ Improve nullifier

  • We have a first iteration. We can continue to research on different implementations. (unsure if this will be needed by this time)

• 🔗 Extensibility

  • Extensibility is related to two things:
    • expanding the integrations to other data sources and
    • expanding the way people can easily fork and build new “Anon Country” systems

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  • Support other Aadhaar Identity sources? (Digilocker)
    • Great endpoint to fetch information and generate new proofs.
    • @jay : Use the official Digilocker API
  • Support more documents types and kind of proofs (proof of driving license, proof of degree, …)
    • Explore other documents generated from Aadhaar identity.
    • Complete set of anonymous credentials
  • More data source/system can apply our protocol.
    • Right now we do it only on PDF but how about “email”, “website”, ???
    • Could anon aadhaar actually not only embrace aadhaar but other docs? There is this question of where is the team going to grab additional data. From the aadhaar card or from other data sources?

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  • Framework to transform any Identity System to Anon Aadhaar likely system.
  • Build system we can extend and modify later.
  • Build framework for adopt another Identity systems.
    • Make it easier for other devs to build Anon “NewCountry”
  • Build Anonymous Credential system wrap identity system with zk-SNARK.
  • Which data would make sense to integrate next? Could we think of combining things together (email + digilocker info, tls notary, ..)?

• 🤩 Anon Aadhaar Website

  • This includes a website that contains documentation, history, features, etc. (i.e. use Semaphore as a reference)

• 🎓 Hackathon

  • At Devcon

2024 Q4

• 🎓 Hackathon

  • At ETHIndia

• 🎓 Run a community Grant Round

  💡 Applications / Grant Idea List

  • This list can be public and grow the whole year:
  • Integrating further with decentralized social nets (e.g. having a aadhaar/india channel on Farcaster), gating posting using aadhaar. Leveraging network effects of Farcaster, not having to deal too much with UI stuff (a priori)
  • India specific product? Housing application/voting, hackaton gated platform
  • Account Abstraction Wallet Implementation: can we provide a grant?

🛡️Security

• Do an internal/external security review (Audit)
• Implement an authorization and authentication data process
• Privacy and handle fallback cases(lost, or leak your ID because other mistakes).
• Possible Product Partners
  • Next Billion & Experiments
  • KYC Companies
  • Partnership with NGOs
  • Indian Government ????
  • Collab with gov???
• Deprioritize for now
  • Looking for prove system not require trusted setup.
  • Rated Limited Nullifer for Anon Aadhaar