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Identity recovery #2

Closed orthecreedence closed 3 years ago

orthecreedence commented 3 years ago

The process is like so:

When creating a new identity, generate a random recovery keypair.
Create the identity's ID signature from the recovery key.
Store the recovery key's public key in the identity's public recovery keys list, which can be used to verify root integrity.

Now, if we need to change the recovery key:

Generate a new recovery key
Sign its public key with the old recovery key's private key.
Push the signature and the new public key into the identity's public recovery key's list.
Sign the keychain's root key with the new recovery key.

This allows anyone to verify the identity from conception to now by following the recovery key list's signature trail back to the ID itself.

orthecreedence commented 3 years ago

This is stupid. And old. Closing.