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[MichaelMure]

UI Mockup

• login screen: profile selection
• login screen: profile selected

Inspiration & user familiar concept

• Gnome login screen

Profile management is a key problem to avoid the user to deal with cryptographic primitive and notions. The idea here is to map the public/private cryptographic key that define the user identity to the concept of "profile".

• generating a new keypair is mapped to creating a new profile.
• keypair unlock is mapped to the login process
• identity/keypair transfer is mapped to profile export/import

To avoid the user to deal with keypair, profile import/export can use more user-friendly concept:

• a single file containing both keys and user-data
• a QR code (more practical for transfer on a mobile device)
• the profile picture with both keys and user-data padded inside

Things left to be thinkered:

• [ ] keypair revocation

[MichaelMure]

This is somewhat outdated, see the UI mockup on the README.