identity: Implement protobuf encoding for RSA, ECDSA and secp256k1 keypairs
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- Rust
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Description
Description
The spec is here: https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/peer-ids/peer-ids.md#key-types
Related: https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/3350#issuecomment-1474048757.
Motivation
Being feature-complete and compliant with libp2p specs.
Are you planning to do it yourself in a pull request?
No.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read the libp2p peer-ids key-types specification first, then inspect the existing identity keypair encoding implementation and the related pull request comment linked in the issue. The work is complete when protobuf encoding supports RSA, ECDSA, and secp256k1 keypairs in compliance with the specification.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cryptography
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100