When you accept a friend request

[nichoth]

Need to add to 'friends' list on the 'from' side. So alice requests friendship with bob, bob accepts. Alice needs to know about it, and update their own list.

Could send a message to our server like

{ to: 'abc123', body: 'encrypted string' }

But do we need to verify the author of the message? That would leak the friend graph, or add some trust between you and the server.

Our server currently doesn't make any distinction about who writes to it.

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Can we make a friend request, then when it is accepted, the acceptor writes to a shared file that we read from?

[nichoth]

Another option

Could create a file that is shared by both parties.

Is this possible?

• [x] need to look into the shared private data API

[nichoth]

Don't hide the social graph for the initial version. Can just write a message to the server like

{ type: 'accept', original-request: 'original-req', author: 'username', requester: 'username' }

• [ ] need a method like getDidForUsername. Should call our DB first, then try the DNS

here's how webnative does DNS lookup

you would call

lookupTxtRecord(domain: string)

with a domain in this format:

`_did.${username}.fission.name`

see the method accountDID here

[nichoth]

This does make me want to use an invitation system, so that we don't have people writing garbage messages and DOSing the DB.

That would be a record in the DB of invitation documents.