Re: Veres One Testnet launch + DID client demo (video)

On 2017-09-29 8:15 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>  Here is a short video that we have put together
> to explain and demonstrate the current capabilities:
> 
> https://youtu.be/tQzQKZKF93w

After watching this, it seems possible that another announcement I saw 
this morning might be useful to the DID system. It's described as 
'discovery' of a way to protect against certain types of MITM attacks, 
especially at the ISP level, by registering the key in a ledger as a 
certificate: "Computer scientists address gap in messaging privacy".

Here's the report on phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-scientists-gap-messaging-privacy.html

Here's a single example paragraph that should explain it, from the 
phys.org report:

"Example of solution in practice

"To prepare for receiving a message, Robert's device certifies an 
encryption key, and publishes the certificate in the ledger. To send a 
message, Sally's device uses a cryptographic process to fetch and 
verify the certified encryption key from the ledger. She then uses it 
to send a message to Robert, who opens it with the corresponding 
decryption key."

I'm not sure it's applicable in DID work, because I don't completely 
understand the relation between cryptographic keys and ledgers in DID 
so far. But my hunch is that DID isn't registering the keys themselves 
at this point, so maybe it will be of interest.


Steven

Received on Friday, 29 September 2017 17:21:35 UTC