Has anyone considered porting Mesh to use DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers) and DIDCOMM (as a message transport)? - Githubissues

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Has anyone considered porting Mesh to use DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers) and DIDCOMM (as a message transport)? #8

Open mwherman2000 opened 1 year ago

mwherman2000 commented 1 year ago

Has anyone considered porting Mesh to use DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers) and DIDCOMM (as a message transport)?

I'm going to take a serious look at this and was wondering if anyone has already taken a kick at this can?

References:

W3C DID Core: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
DIF DIDCOMM: https://didcomm.org/

Michael

ShreyasZare commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the post. Mesh uses a proprietary p2p protocol that uses TCP transport and Kademlia based DHT to find peers. There is no other kind of implementation available for the project.

There is a plan to update this project to work cross platform with .NET in future.

mwherman2000 commented 1 year ago

My idea is to replace the identity functionality with DIDs and the messaging protocol with DIDCOMM ...I'm borrowing the UX and overall project structure.

p.s. @ShreyasZare I'm the same fellow who cloned your DNSServer repository to create a DID Document Registry server that exposes itself using the standard DNS protocol.