Handroll replacement for com.danubetech:verifiable-credentials-java

[mistermoe]

Rationale

• Not published to maven central. consumers have to add danubetech's repository
• introduces CVEs (though this may have been remedied in more recent versions)
• Pulls in the entirety of bitcoinj as a dependency

[ALRubinger]

Requesting escalation. The Danubetech repo has gone down today and is failing our builds across the suite.

From https://github.com/TBD54566975/developer.tbd.website/actions/runs/7904169542/job/21581706481:

Error:  Failed to execute goal on project kotlin-testsuite: Could not resolve dependencies for project website.tbd.developer.site:kotlin-testsuite:jar:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies at xyz.block:tbdex:jar:0.10.0-beta -> xyz.block:tbdex-protocol:jar:0.10.0-beta -> xyz.block:web5:jar:0.0.11 -> xyz.block:web5-credentials:jar:0.0.11 -> com.danubetech:verifiable-credentials-java:jar:1.6.0: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.danubetech:verifiable-credentials-java:jar:1.6.0: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.danubetech:verifiable-credentials-java:pom:1.6.0 (absent): Could not transfer artifact com.danubetech:verifiable-credentials-java:pom:1.6.0 from/to danubetech (https://repo.danubetech.com/repository/maven-public/): status code: 500, reason phrase: Server Error (500) -> [Help 1]

Can be verified in a browser: https://repo.danubetech.com/repository/maven-public/com/danubetech/verifiable-credentials-java/1.6.0/verifiable-credentials-java-1.6.0.pom

@jiyoontbd is filing an issue with the maintainers, but until this comes back online - builds for all projects relying on this dep will fail.

[jiyoontbd]

related to #228

[jiyoontbd]

@nitro-neal i think you're currently working on this? can you please link the relevant PRs?

[nitro-neal]

here - #249