24P/ Secure Scuttlebutt Outro

Secure Scuttlebutt Outro

Thursday 24P

Convener: Charles E. Lehner

Notes-taker(s): Charles E. Lehner

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Secure Scuttlebutt, Decentralized Identifiers, Key Management

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps: 

Dmitri expressed interest in SSB and reported using but then having lost their key (when switching/resetting devices?). Expressed Frustration (with the key recovery process). Have question, how could SSB use DIDs?

Charles responded that there is a draft PR on DID Spec Registries adding a SSB DID method a few days ago.

https://github.com/w3c/did-spec-registries/pull/291

Dmitri Z. asked about other ways other than as a DID method.

Charles said SSB could be extended to support DIDs, but this would be a breaking change, which the community doesn’t seem to want, considering SSB’s message signing format as “set in stone”.

There could be other ways, such as making a new system that uses DIDs but inherits some of SSB’s design.