[Part 1 of 2] We talk with Orie Steele of Transmute, an editor of the did:key spec and Mike Varley of SecureKey, who has worked through that spec and implemented did:key for his company. did:key might be the simplest and most useful DID method out there. It certainly was the most surprising when we first learned of it: did:key encodes everything needed to generate a valid DID Document in the DID itself, making it easy to understand and implement. 

https://diddirectory.com/key

References

• BLS12-381
  • https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/bls12-381  
• CCG – Credentials Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium
  • https://www.w3.org/community/credentials 
• COSE – CBOR Object Signing and Encryption
  • https://cbor.io/spec.html  
• Daniel J. Bernstein (djb)
  • https://cr.yp.to/djb.html  
• Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
  • https://identity.foundation  
• did:peer Specification
  • https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec 
• DID Test Suite
  • https://github.com/w3c/did-test-suite 
• Digital Signatures 
  • https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-018  
• DHS SVIP (Department of Homeland Security’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program) Demo Week
  • https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/svip-demo-week#  
• ED25519
  • https://ed25519.cr.yp.to  
• Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) 
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm  
• Go Lang
  • https://golang.org 
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) 
  • https://www.iana.org   
• JOSE –  Javascript Object Signing and Encryption
  • https://jose.readthedocs.io/en/latest  
• Key Agreement
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-agreement_protocol    
• Legendary Requirements
  • http://legreq.com 
• Lib Sodium
  • https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc  
• Multibase
  • https://github.com/multiformats/multibase  
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • https://www.nist.gov  
• NIST Curve P256
  • https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/events/workshop-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography-standards/documents/papers/session6-adalier-mehmet.pdf  
• NIST Curve P384
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-384 
  • https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.sp.800-78-4.pdf  
• NIST Curve P521
  • https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-186-draft.pdf 
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy 
• Public Key Cryptography
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography  
• Safe Curves Website 
  • https://safecurves.cr.yp.to  
• Secp256k1
  • https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 
• Secure Key
  • https://securekey.com 
• Sidetree
  • https://identity.foundation/sidetree/spec/  
• Signal
  • https://signal.org 
• SSI – Self Sovereign Identity 
  • http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-soverereign-identity.html 
• Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken
  • https://www.stevens.edu  
• Transmute Industries 
  • https://www.transmute.industries  
• Transmute Industries DID key
  • https://did.key.transmute.industries  
• TrustBloc
  • https://github.com/trustbloc 
• UVARINT
  • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mohae/uvarint  
• Verifiable Claims Data Model and Representations specification
  • https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model  
• Verifiable Credentials 
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model  
• Verified Me 
  • https://verified.me/government-sign-in-by-verified-me 
• W3C DID Core Specification v1.0
  • https://github.com/w3c/did-core 
• W3C DID Specification Registries
  • https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods 
• W3C DID Test Suite 
  • https://github.com/w3c/did-test-suite  
• X25519
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519  
• Zero Knowledge Proof
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof  

Hosts: Joe Andrieu, Eric Schuh, and Erica Connell

Producer: Erica Connell

Executive Producer: Joe Andrieu

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