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nogweii / fisheye

A multi-tenant, multi-protocol identity server (OpenID, BrowserID)
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Support Nicknym #9

Open nogweii opened 10 years ago

nogweii commented 10 years ago

Nicknym is a protocol designed to bridge a username with a public key. That public key can then be used for encrypting incoming messages, etc. Like email. Or short form messages (IM, SMS, etc)

It's developed by the LEAP Encryption Access Project. It seems like it's part of the Bitmask application/service?

LEAP provides a reference nickagent (nicknym client) implementation in python called keymanager. This would be useful as part of the test suite.

It seems that for a user at the domain "example.org", it's assumed that the nicknym server is nicknym.example.org, which means then the DNS API idea proposed in #8 would be necessary here, to.

nogweii commented 10 years ago

There also exists a reference implementation of the server in Ruby already. Reusable?