Evaluate DIDComm Properties: Security, Privacy, Usability

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Evaluate DIDComm Properties: Security, Privacy, Usability #29

Open wip-abramson opened 4 years ago

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

What?

DIDComm is a protocol under standardisation at DIF - https://github.com/decentralized-identity/didcomm-messaging

Using aries-basic-controller we can easily spin up agents and communicate over DIDComm. It would be good to use WireShark or similar to see exactly what is getting sent over the wire and evaluate the privacy, security and usability implications of this.

How long?

A month

Additional Context

Some useful RFCs - https://hackmd.io/KwogAummQM-fOOBBnjZ32w

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

Really cool paper from 1981 that basically is DIDComm today as far as I can see. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358549.358563

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

DIDComm spec - https://identity.foundation/didcomm-messaging/spec/

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

Also this - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5598 Internet Mail similarities

wip-abramson commented 4 years ago

Contrast with Matrix - https://matrix.org/