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Re: Proposed work item: did:key DID Method

From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:09:02 -0500
To: public-credentials@w3.org
Message-ID: <2f60e33f-909d-d886-1a32-815d1eb15202@digitalbazaar.com>
On 11/23/19 12:05 PM, Oliver Terbu wrote:
> If `did:key` starts as a new W3C Work Item, then I would be 
> interested, although I hope that 
> https://github.com/uport-project/nacl-did can be used as an input 
> document.

Yes, I expect that we'd merge the did:key and did:nacl documents as
their goals are strongly aligned, if my reading of did:nacl is correct.

In fact, the biggest difference boils down to this line in the did:nacl
README:

> The base identifier is a Base64Url encoded Ed25519 public key.

did:key is a multibase, multi-codec encoded public key, so it supports
more than just Ed25519... it supports ed25519, secp256k1, secp256r1, and
even RSA. It is also future-compatible by supporting alternate
base-encoding formats, and new key formats that are yet to appear
(through the use of multicodec).

Happy to have you as a co-editor, Oliver, if you're volunteering. :)

-- manu

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