ankianan / pass

Is a tool to safely share content among set of people. It uses DID to restrict content access.

Pass

Is a tool to safely share content among set of people. It uses DID to restrict content access.

Technologies

• ION (DID) : https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion-tools
• JOSE (Encryption/ Decryption): https://github.com/panva/jose

Install

• Run yarn

Test

• Run yarn:build
• Run http-server
• Import dist/browser-extension

Demo

Architecture

• Wallet: A key manager, that stores private/public key pair per identity per consumer.
  • Maintains a public endpoint to search set of registerd DIDs by user name
• Identity: Each DID is an identity.
  • One might want to maintain different identity on facebook and github.
• Consumer: Component encrypts/decrypt the content for set of users:
  • Can be browser extention, a CLI library or a dedicated App
• Relay: Component that allow consumer and wallet to communicate.

https://app.diagrams.net/#DPass%20architecture

FAQ

• Use case
  • Prevent hack
    • A Facebook, which is end-to-end encrypted. That allow you to actually share content only with selected people (excluding even Facebook).
      • Isn’t it is same as WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted chat?
        • Yes, but WhatsApp encryption only works within WhatsApp and is not available to other platforms outside it.
  • Paid content
    • A GitHub repo hosting encrypted content restricting access to set of user or corporates. Good for montezing open source work by developer.
• What is the objective?
  • To give back user control of their data and let them decide with whom to share.
• Which other mediums can be target?
  • Any collaboration medium (Insta, Github) that needs data to be shared among set of people.