Open ozyman42 opened 1 year ago
Thanks! I'll drop some related links for now and follow up properly soon:
encrypt
and decrypt
At a high level, the current plan is:
encrypt
and decrypt
features to the Solana extensions to the Wallet Standard. This will allow wallets to express to applications their ability to use encryption and what algorithms they support. These may not look exactly like the experimental features we prototyped previously.Hey @ozyman42 ! I just added some replies to the sRFC's Jordan linked and updated the Keyring Program with my latest commits, including a more detailed README.
I encourage you to comment in sRFC 00007 so we can rope in the folks on the thread, as well as sRFC 00009 if it's of interest to you!
Motivation
Many potential applications might prefer to encrypt end user data via a public key the user controls rather than encrypting via a user's password (i.e. lastpass), as passwords are a poor UX compared to a web 3 wallet. Metamask currently is the only web 3 wallet I'm aware of which offers the ability to decrypt via private key. Ideally Solana wallets should support this, and ideally all the wallets would use the same algorithm for obtaining a public encryption key and the same asymmetric encryption algo too. In the linked EIP you see a proposal for wallets to offer an RPC for encryption via
secp256k1
+ECIES
.Details
Relevant discussion in Ethereum: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-5630-encryption-and-decryption/10761/128 Metamask SDK:
Open related issue in Backpack https://github.com/coral-xyz/backpack/issues/4241 Open related issue in Solana Mobile Seed Vault https://github.com/solana-mobile/seed-vault-sdk/issues/144 Closed related issue in Solana web3 repo https://github.com/solana-labs/solana-web3.js/issues/1367