ECC Keys and Statement Signing/Verification

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ECC Keys and Statement Signing/Verification #35

Closed vyzo closed 7 years ago

vyzo commented 7 years ago

Upgrade libp2p to the new shiny ECC keys; plenty of modularization changes as well
Split the node identity in two:
- A PeerIdentity for libp2p connections, which retains RSA keys (but extends to 2k) for aleph interop
- A PublisherIdentity which contains the ECC signing key; the publisher id is the base58 encoding of the public key
Sign all published statements
Verify statement signatures in merge operations
Update the /id api to return both identities in a json object

Closes #6 Closes #12

yusefnapora commented 7 years ago

👍 looks great; I'll dig into getting ECC working in javascript. maybe worth looking into forking js-libp2p-crypto and hope we can submit a PR upstream.

should we include the publisher key in the PeerInfo protobufs?

vyzo commented 7 years ago

Yeah, we probably want it -- but probably not in the PeerInfo object. I will show some love to the directory when I work on the networking stuffs next, so I'll add it then.

yusefnapora commented 7 years ago

sounds good 👍