Re: Proposed work item: did:key DID Method

Thanks for the link to the comparison.

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From: Orie Steele <orie@transmute.industries>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2019 10:57:25 AM
To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Cc: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed work item: did:key DID Method

I'm interested, I created a web resolver and demo website from the current version of the driver for testing purposes:

https://github.com/transmute-industries/did-key


I had a question before the spec was available, regarding multibase as the only encoding format for the DID.

Is it true that there will always only be a single DID per public key?

I was hoping that this work could be extended to support a DID Document representation for cryptographic key types, as well as formats, such as PEM / JWK, secp256k1, RSA, etc... but it would be the case that the same key encoded in different ways would result in different documents.

Regarding did:peer, this is clearly very different, it does not involve storing of events (https://openssi.github.io/peer-did-method-spec/index.html#backing-storage), you can see a comparison in the peer did spec:

https://openssi.github.io/peer-did-method-spec/index.html#did-key-and-did-nacl





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On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 10:29 AM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com<mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote:
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier for
verifiable, decentralized digital identity. These new identifiers are
designed to enable the controller of a DID to prove control over it and
to be implemented independently of any centralized registry, identity
provider, or certificate authority. These sorts of identifiers often
utilize a heavy-weight registry, such as ones utilizing Decentralized
Ledger Technologies (DLT), to create, read, update, and deactivate DIDs.

This specification describes a non-registry based DID Method based on
expanding a cryptographic public key into a DID Document. This approach
provides the simplest possible implementation of a DID Method that is
able to achieve many, but not all, of the benefits of utilizing DIDs.

https://digitalbazaar.github.io/did-method-key/


At this time, we are seeking another implementer that is willing to
collaborate on maturing this DID Method and be a co-sponsor/editor on
the specification.

The request to add this as a work item to the CCG is here:

https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/98


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