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Selective Disclosure and Privacy-Preserving Proofs

What wallet privacy promises rest on.

  • Knowledge
  • L4 Assure
  • Horizon
  • Security, privacy and data protection
  • ICB-H03
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Why this course

Wallet privacy depends on these techniques, and civil society groups questioned traceability safeguards in the draft implementing rules during 2026. Technical staff need to be able to evaluate such claims.

What you will be able to do

  1. Explain the selective disclosure techniques used in wallet credentials.
  2. Compare credential formats by their privacy properties.
  3. Describe what zero-knowledge proofs could add and how mature they are.

Modules

  1. Selective disclosure
  2. Formats compared
  3. Unlinkability
  4. Zero-knowledge proofs

Assessment

Knowledge check (10 questions).

Badge evidence: Passed knowledge check.

Prerequisites: ICB-F06

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers
  • Education and providers
  • Associations and policy

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkSECPskillL4levelKstage

Security, privacy and data protection (SECP, VRITE pillar Trustworthiness)

Related skills: Standards and interoperability, Digital identity and wallets. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Self-paced module for HR and learning technology owners. Badge aligns to ICSF SECP L4 (SFIA 5) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as awareness evidence; it does not show performance.

In education

Micro-credential of 3 h notional workload (about 0.1 ECTS), indicative EQF 6 to 7, assessed by knowledge check with feedback. Stand-alone or elective unit.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 3 h (about 0.1 ECTS). Level: ICSF L4, EQF 6 to 7 (indicative). Type of assessment: knowledge check with feedback. Form of participation: Online, asynchronous. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-F06.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Trustworthiness.

AI dimension: General rules only.

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The course is open on GitHub in LiaScript format under CC BY 4.0. View the source or read how to suggest a change.