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# SWPerson

An object that tracks participants in a collaboration.

```
class SWPerson
```

## Topics

### Creating participants

[`-  initWithHandle:identity:displayName:thumbnailImageData:`](/documentation/SharedWithYouCore/SWPerson/init(handle:identity:displayName:thumbnailImageData:))

Creates and initializes a person object.

### Accessing attributes

[`Identity`](/documentation/SharedWithYouCore/SWPerson/Identity)

The unique identity for a person.

[`IdentityProof`](/documentation/SharedWithYouCore/SWPerson/IdentityProof)

An object that represents proof of inclusion to a Merkle tree.

[`SignedIdentityProof`](/documentation/SharedWithYouCore/SWPerson/SignedIdentityProof)

The signature that the system creates by signing the data with this person’s identity.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`NSSecureCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSSecureCoding)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`NSCoding`](/documentation/Foundation/NSCoding)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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