Tamper-evident.
As issued
Signature valid
Altered
Signature fails
Every credential is cryptographically signed at issuance, so any alteration breaks the signature and fails verification.
Your keys. Your credential. Any wallet.
Oliu® NetworkThe credential network, a venture of Credivera and We Know Training.
Every credential is issued on the open W3C verifiable credentials standard and signed by a key your organization controls, which means anyone can check it in seconds without ever calling you.
What the credential is
A credential that proves itself to a stranger.
Issued on the open W3C standard and signed at the moment it is earned, so it carries its own evidence rather than pointing at a record somewhere that only you can see.
Real, and current.
Most systems
Did this credential once exist?
A record confirms it was issued.
Ours
Is it valid today?
Expiry and revocation are part of the check.
Certificates expire on fixed cycles, so confirming one once existed is not the same as confirming it still stands.
Anyone can still fake a PDF, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What changes is that the real one can be checked instantly, which leaves the fake nowhere to go.
Three things the check confirms, without contacting you
- 01
Nothing was altered
The digest is recomputed on the verifier’s own device.
- 02
The issuer is accredited
A registry lookup: are they accredited to issue this credential?
- 03
It has not been cancelled
You can revoke a credential, and the revocation is checkable too.
Technical conformance
Our gate is technical conformance. It is not accreditation.
Three things have to be true for a credential to be issued conformantly. It has to meet the W3C standard, it has to be bound to a verified identity, and it has to come out of a supervised process. That is a technical bar and nothing more. We do not accredit anyone, we do not set standards, and we have no view on what your credential should mean.
- 01
Meets the W3C standard
- 02
Bound to a verified identity
- 03
Comes out of a supervised process
Free at the point of use
Nobody downstream pays, and the holder decides where it lives.
The issuer pays for issuance. Nobody downstream pays anything, and these are the three questions your members will ask.
Nothing to set up
The credential is issued into a free wallet, so the person who earned it has somewhere to put it on day one. No purchase, no licence, nothing for them to arrange.
Not locked to us
Because it is built on the open W3C standard, it works in any conformant wallet. If the holder would rather keep it somewhere else, it still verifies.
Nothing for the verifier
An employer checking it needs no account, no app and no licence. A phone camera is enough.
The wallet itself, how it behaves day to day and how it works alongside the provincial wallets are all covered by Oliu. See the wallet on oliu.ca(opens in a new tab)
A ticket earned in one province, checked in another.
Canadian labour mobility commitments are built on the idea that a qualification earned in one province should be recognized in another. In practice, recognition still slows to the speed of verifying a document. A credential on an open standard is checkable wherever the holder goes, without anything having to cross a border.
Built alongside the provincial wallets, not against them.
Provinces are building identity wallets, and these are credentials on the same open standard. Where the two meet, they interoperate.
Independence
You hold the keys. We are not in the verification path.
Your institution signs with its own key. The credential proves itself. An employer checks it on their own device. At no point in that sequence does anything have to reach us, which is what makes the credential survive a change of supplier, including a change away from us.
The keys are held securely in escrow on your behalf, and if you leave, you leave with them. Every credential you have ever issued stays verifiable after you go, because that is a property of the standard rather than a favour from us.
Your institution
Signs with its own key
The credential
Signed, tamper-evident
An employer
Verifies in seconds
WKTNot required for any of it
What issues the credential
The last link in the chain.
Proof runs on the Oliu® Network, a venture of Credivera and We Know Training. It is the piece that turns everything the chain recorded into something an employer can check, and it is the reason the credential keeps working whoever you buy the rest from.
Oliu® Network
The wallet, the trust registry, the standards it conforms to and how the network is run are documented on Oliu’s own site.
oliu.ca(opens in a new tab)