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Decentralised user accounts
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Description
We seem not to have a bug for the age-old feature of decentralised user accounts. This would let users migrate or replicate their accounts between different homeservers, such that their homeserver is not a single point of failure for their account. See also https://github.com/matrix-org/GSoC/blob/master/IDEAS.md#decentralised-accounts
Various possible ideas:
* Make MXIDs a 3PID(!) https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3634
* Split users into alias & opaque ID, like rooms: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/494
* Use pub/priv keys for identity: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/778
* ...
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
Start by reading this issue and the linked Matrix specification proposals for MXIDs, alias and opaque IDs, and public/private-key identity. Compare the migration and replication requirements described there, then determine whether the project has settled on one approach; done would require an agreed design rather than a single localized edit.
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Assessment
- Domain
- authentication, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100