Build an Identity Prototype

[jjeffryes]

Description

The user's identity (public and private keys, peerID) will be generated from a series of words they should remember. Once generated, their identity data should be stored in their local browser in a secure manner.

Questions

• What, exactly, is stored locally? Public key and peerID? How safe can we make it?
• Does the user need to re-enter their seed each time? Can the browser store it securely like it would a password?
• How, exactly, is externally stored data associated with the user in a secure manner?
• What input is needed for the seed? 12 words?

Deliverables

• Build a simple web page that can:
  • Generate a mnemonic of 12 (or some number) words at random.
  • Turn the mnemonic into a private and public key pair, and a peerID.
    • Research the correct way to turn the seed words into a key pair.
    • Look at the BIP39 key generation here for an example https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39
    • The peerID should be generated with https://github.com/libp2p/js-peer-id
  • Display the generated keys on the page.
  • Display the BIP32 keys for BTC and BCH. Use https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39 as a reference.
  • Store the data in local storage (in the browser).
  • Determine what data can be stored securely. Ideally the user can open a new tab and the new tab has access to the keys and peerID.

[jashot7]

https://github.com/jashot7/IdentityPOC

[jashot7]

Functional, fat trimmed and should serve as an example for how to generate the above.

Note: I ended up pulling out all of the usage of Ian Coleman's work/tool and used our server go code as a reference instead.

Currently using this to explore React Redux, etc.

[jashot7]

https://www.jasonhotelling.com/IdentityPOC/

[jashot7]

@jjeffries Can we close this?