Identifi

Available at:

Code:

https://github.com/identifi/identifi-daemon Maintains identity & message indexes on IPFS
https://github.com/identifi/identifi-cli Command line interface to identifi-daemon and identifi-lib functions
https://github.com/identifi/identifi-lib Library for reading and writing Identifi messages and indexes on IPFS
https://github.com/identifi/identifi-angular AngularJS interface, runs at https://identi.fi
https://github.com/identifi/identifi-node Node package that bundles all the previous.

What

Concept: https://medium.com/@mmalmi/learning-to-trust-strangers-167b652a654f
Global address book
Anyone can edit and verify contact details
Users can give each other eBay-style reviews and trust ratings
Filter all information by its author's position in your web of trust
- For example, only show the content created by your friends and the people they trust
Decentralized - data is stored and indexed on the devices of its users (on IPFS). Compares to a phone's address book or a local DNS cache.
API for integration with various trust or identity dependent applications

Keep your contact details, payment addresses etc. up-to-date and verified
Makes it possible to trust people you have never met
- Utilize your good reputation in various services and situations
- Reduces risk of trade or loan, thus reducing cost
Prevent spam (by accepting messages only from trusted / socially connected senders)
Prevent fake accounts used for commercial or propaganda purposes
Provide identity verifications to people who lack official ID
Facilitate gift economy / time banking
Distributed public messaging, with trust lists instead of centralized moderator power
Censorship-resistance
Open database, vs. proprietary information silos of reputation and online identity
- No monopoly on credit ratings
Ubiquitous reputation as non-violent, cost-effective and decentralized justice
- Everyone can choose whose judgement or review to trust
- Incentive against antisocial behavior
- Incentive to restore trust by compensation and apology for misdeeds

Identifi message: [author identifiers, recipient identifiers, message][signatures]
- Identified by content hash
- Signed by the entity which verified that the message originates from the named author. Thus, all end users need not to have a crypto key of their own.
- Encoded and signed as JSON Web Tokens
Messages are stored and indexed locally in an SQL database
- Nodes maintain their own trust indexes which are updated as new messages arrive
- Message storage priority is based on its author's and signer's position in the node's web of trust
- Messages and indexes are also globally stored on IPFS
  - Can be used in serverless mode
  - btree indexes
Crawl initial data from existing social networks and review systems

Facial recognition and identifi-cation with a AR glasses
- Thumbs up to the friendly bus driver, policeman or the stranger who helped you
Mywot.com-style browser plugin for website reviews
Bitcoin UIs, connect addresses to identities or vice versa
Email plugin
- Generate trusted senders list from email history
- Require new senders to be on identifi - send automatic response if not
Decentralized marketplaces, P2P trade and finance
- Check escrow or trader reputation
- Airbnb, eBay, Uber, LocalBitcoins etc.
- Time banking, gift economy
Uncensored and sockpuppet-resistant reviews and recommendations for products, restaurants etc.
Public messaging, automatically show or hide authors
Social network based routing protocols
Decentralized alternative to DNS - let your WoT decide which IP a name maps to

Identifi is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

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