Getting Started

You will need python 3.6 and libsodium installed to run didery.py. You can find python 3.6 here and libsodium here. It is recommended that you also setup a python virtual environment as shown here.

Installation

To install didery.py start your virtual environment and run the command below:

$ pip install -e didery.py/

Usage

To see the command line options use the command below:

$ didery --help
Usage: didery [OPTIONS] CONFIG

Options:
  -i, --incept    Send a key rotation history inception event.
  -u, --upload    Upload a new otp encrypted private key.
  -r, --rotate    Rotate public/private key pairs.
  -U, --update    Update otp encrypted private key.
  -R, --retrieve  Retrieve key rotation history.
  -d, --download  Download otp encrypted private key.
  -D, --delete    Delete rotation history.
  -m, --remove    Remove otp encrypted private key.
  -e, --events    Pull a record of all history rotation events for a specified
                  did.
  -v              Verbosity of console output. There are 5 verbosity levels
                  from '' to '-vvvv.'
  -M, --mute      Mute all console output except prompts.
  --data PATH     Path to the data file.
  --did TEXT      decentralized identifier(did).
  --help          Show this message and exit.

Config File

The CLI requires a path to a json formatted config file with a list of didery endpoints as shown below.

{
    "servers": ["http://localhost:8080", "http://localhost:8000"]
}

“servers” [list] required - A list of server address strings. This must be supplied so the library knows what servers to broadcast and poll from. To determine if there is a consensus on polling a 2/3 of the servers must return matching responses.

Data File

For certain commands it is necessary to supply a data file. The file should be json formatted and will contain either the rotation history or the one time pad(otp) encrypted blob. The data file is required for the following options:

–upload

–rotate

The file should follow the format below for history data:

{
    "history": {
        "id": "did:dad:Qt27fThWoNZsa88VrTkep6H-4HA8tr54sHON1vWl6FE=",
        "signer": 0,
        "signers":
        [
            "Qt27fThWoNZsa88VrTkep6H-4HA8tr54sHON1vWl6FE=",
            "Xq5YqaL6L48pf0fu7IUhL0JRaU2_RxFP0AL43wYn148="
        ]
    }
}

“id” [string] required - Decentralized identifier (DID).

“signer” [integer] required - 0 based index into signers field. Rotation events signer field will always be 1 or greater.

“signers” [list] required - List of all public keys. Must contain at least two keys for –upload and 3 or more for –rotation.

The file should follow the format below for otp data:

{
    "otp": {
        "blob": "AeYbsHot0pmdWAcgTo5sD8iAuSQAfnH5U6wiIGpVNJQQoYKBYrPPxAoIc1i5SHCIDS8KFFgf8i0tDq8XGizaCgo9yjuKHHNJZFi0QD9K6Vpt6fP0XgXlj8z_4D-7s3CcYmuoWAh6NVtYaf_GWw_2sCrHBAA2mAEsml3thLmu50Dw",
        "id": "did:dad:Qt27fThWoNZsa88VrTkep6H-4HA8tr54sHON1vWl6FE="
    }
}
“id” [string] required
- Decentralized identifier (DID).
“blob” [string] required
- otp encrypted private keys.