oasisprotocol / oasisprotocol/oasis-core
Key rotation / ratcheting
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c:key management
p:2
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 369
- Forks
- 151
- Avg merge
- 1d 3h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 6
Description
Currently keys are fixed. We ought to have the key manager rotate keys. We can use similar techniques from secure messaging. Here's a decent summary
https://signal.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
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 key-manager implementation and the linked Signal advanced-ratcheting summary first. The issue names no files or tests and does not define the rotation protocol or completion criteria, so scope and validation need to be agreed before implementation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- blockchain, cryptography, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100