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Implement Watcher Functionality for Revocations and Issuer Chain Validation #132

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Add a watcher mechanism to the vlei-verifier service that regularly interacts with configured witness APIs to ensure robust and up-to-date credential validation. This functionality should include the following:

✅ Features to Implement:

  1. Revocation Status Checks:

    • Periodically query witness APIs to retrieve information about credential revocations.

    • Maintain a local cache or store to quickly determine the revocation status during verification.

  2. Issuer Chain Validation:

    • Upon credential presentation, query witnesses to obtain information about the issuer of the credential.

    • Recursively traverse the issuer chain by requesting issuer information for each parent issuer, up to the root of trust.

    • Ensure the entire chain of trust is valid and unrevoked.

  3. Configuration:

    • Allow configuration of witness endpoints and polling intervals.

    • Optionally support on-demand (lazy) vs scheduled (eager) retrieval strategies.

📌 Goal:

Ensure vlei-verifier can independently verify credential authenticity and revocation status using witness-provided information, strengthening the trust model and supporting automated validation pipelines.

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