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Identity

An Identity Wallet creates and stores identities for a user. A user can have more than one identity and can have several credentials linked to each identity. An Identity is represented with an Identifier which allows the user's wallet to interact with an Issuer by authenticating itself first (before the credential can be issued).

📄️ Create Identity

Create an identity using the SDK.

📄️ Check Identity Validity

Checks the identity validity from a secret.

📄️ Get Private Key

Get the identity private key from a secret.

📄️ Get Identity

We can get an identity stored on the SDK using getIdentity() function.

📄️ Get Identities

We can get a list of public information about all the identities stored on the SDK using getIdentities() function.

📄️ Backup Identity

Backup Identity method backs up the identity stored on SDK.

📄️ Get DID Identifier

Get DID Identifier function returns an identifier.

📄️ Get DID Entity

Get the Did Entity.

📄️ Get Identity State

The getState() function returns the present state of an identity.

📄️ Sign Message

In the Polygon ID SDK, a message can be signed using the sign() function.

📄️ Remove Identity

In the Polygon ID SDK, an identity is removed using removeIdentity() method.

📄️ Restore Identity

Restoring an Identity can be done using an identity backup and the secret used to create the identity.