The Identity Wallet service

Prove who you are, without handing over your documents.

The Identity Wallet keeps your identity on your phone, encrypted. When a service needs an answer — are you over 18, are you verified — it gets the answer, never your documents.

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Free, open source, and stewarded by a not-for-profit foundation. Not an Australian Government service.

The service

One verified identity, two wallet surfaces

Verify once on your phone; manage everything from the browser. Your verification level works everywhere the VirtEngine network is accepted — as an approved client, providers see your tier, never your documents.

Capture + wallet Mobile wallet Guided document capture, liveness, hardware biometrics — encrypted on your phone before anything moves. Manage + present Web wallet — my.identity.org.au Present proofs, review every consent, control your sessions — from any browser, passkey sign-in. Overview The Identity Wallet service What the service is, how the surfaces fit together, and how verification works on the network.

What you can do with the Identity Wallet

Verify your identity once Complete a guided verification on your phone — document, selfie, liveness — and reuse it everywhere the wallet is accepted. Prove your age without your documents Answer “are you over 18?” with a cryptographic yes — your birth date and documents stay private. Share with services on your terms See exactly what a service is asking for, approve or decline, and set consent to expire automatically. Change your mind, any time Every consent you grant can be revoked. Every use of your data is recorded where you can see it. Build a stronger verification level Four levels — from Basic to Trusted — unlock more as your identity evidence gets stronger. Leave, completely Delete your identity data on a published timeline. Encryption keys are destroyed — deletion is real.

Get started

Set up in about ten minutes

You need a smartphone and a government-issued identity document. The wallet guides you through each step, and you review everything before it is submitted.

Scan your identity document

Front and back, guided by the camera. The app reads the details and you check them before anything is submitted.
Take a selfie with liveness checks

Blink, turn your head, smile — short challenges that prove a live person is present, not a photo.
Review and submit — encrypted

Everything is encrypted on your phone before it leaves. The network verifies your identity and issues your verification level.

See the full setup guide

Verification levels

Four levels. Services ask for what they need — no more.

Verification levels, what each is based on, and what it unlocks
Level	In plain terms	Typical use
Unverified	You have a wallet, but no identity checks have been completed yet.	Browsing services that accept the wallet
Basic	Early checks have passed. Enough for low-risk activity where a service just needs some confidence you are a real person.	Low-risk services and small transactions
Standard	Your identity document and your face have been checked and verified by the network. This is the level most services ask for.	Most participating services
Trusted	The strongest level: everything in Standard, plus hardware-backed biometric checks, device integrity attestation, and a sustained verification history.	Sensitive, high-trust roles — for example validator onboarding on the VirtEngine network

Verification levels in detail — what evidence each requires

Your data, in plain terms

Locked on your device. Processed in a vault no one can open.

Your evidence is encrypted before it moves, processed only inside hardware-sealed trusted processing units, and destroyed when scoring ends. Only the result — a score and tier — ever remains.

Stage 1 Captured On your phone: document scan, selfie, liveness.
Stage 2 Encrypted on your device Sealed before anything moves. Keys stay in your phone.
Stage 3 Processed in a sealed enclave Hardware-attested. No operator can look inside.
Stage 4 Raw data destroyed The enclave keeps nothing after scoring ends.
Stage 5 Only the result remains A score and tier — never documents or biometrics.

Trusted processing — the lock and the key Read the full privacy page

Where each category of identity data is stored
Your data	Where it lives	Who can read it
Document scans and photos	Encrypted on your device, then as encrypted payloads the network cannot browse	You. Verification runs inside sealed, attested enclaves; results are recorded, not images.
Biometric templates	Encrypted before leaving your phone (X25519-XSalsa20-Poly1305)	Never shared with services. Never sold — prohibited regardless of consent.
Verification results	On the network — your level and pass/fail outcomes	Services you explicitly consent to, per request.
Consent records	Auditable history — every grant, every revocation, timestamped	You, in full. Services see only their own grants.

Insights

Analysis on digital identity

All insights

Synthetic media Identity in the synthetic era Generative tools can now produce convincing faces, voices and documents. What breaks when seeing is no longer believing — and what verification has to become instead. Fraud AI-generated fraud and fake IDs Generated document images and synthetic faces have industrialised identity fraud. How modern verification systems — liveness, hardware attestation, cryptographic results — are designed to answer it. Architecture Why centralised identity databases fail Every central store of identity documents is a honeypot: maximum value to attackers, catastrophic and irreversible when breached. The structural argument for never building the archive at all.

Why you can check our claims

Open source

Every line of the wallet and the network is public. Nothing on this site asks you to trust what you cannot inspect. About the code

Not-for-profit steward

Stewarded by DETIO FOUNDATION LTD (ACN 699 651 771), whose constitution locks the technology to public benefit — no dividends, no private capture. Who runs it

Patented method, public interest

The verification method is Australian patent AU2024203136B2, held inside the public-benefit structure. The patent in plain terms

Honesty first

This wallet is a working, open-source reference implementation — the blueprint production wallets build on. There are no app-store listings, and we make no claims of government accreditation. What we publish here is what the code does.