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Key Conversion #177
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This library appears to have support for
RSA
,Ed25519
andSecp256k1
+ NIST Curves.When integrating with existing systems, developers are likely to encounter at least 3 formats for these keys...
hex / base58 / binary encoded keys, JWK and PEM.
AFAIK, PEM is already supported.
It would be useful to be able to convert between all popular formats using a friendly interface.
Here is a terrible example of handling this for secp256k1:
https://github.com/transmute-industries/did-key.js/blob/master/packages/did-key-secp256k1/src/keyUtils.test.ts
In addition, it might be desirable to support
did:key
within this library directly, because of its reliance on https://github.com/multiformats/multicodec/blob/master/table.csv#L81https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-method-key
This would allow for
js-libp2p-crypto
to be the single crypto dependency for systems likedid:peer
which upgrade fromdid:key
: https://github.com/openssi/peer-did-method-specalthough support for
did:key
representations ofjs-libp2p-crypto
might be better handled at another layer.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: