UCAN DO SECURE KEY MANAGEMENT IN THE BROWSER: BAC KG RO U N D O N F I S S I O N November 2020 1
A presentation at Fission Weekly Video Chat - UCAN (do) secure key management in the browser, with Ben Bollen in November 2020 in by Boris Mann
UCAN DO SECURE KEY MANAGEMENT IN THE BROWSER: BAC KG RO U N D O N F I S S I O N November 2020 1
FISSION: FAST APP PUBLISHIN G • Make apps simpler to build, host, and maintain, while preserving user agency and supporting makers • Simple app publishing flow for developers today: using the CLI, get a subdomain, publish using local IPFS, we update dnslink and store files • Webnative SDK: Login, files, database (with encryption, revisions, and more built in) • Soon: App Cloning to empower even more digital makers — from front end devs all the way to end user customization 2
FISSION APPROAC H TO TEC H • Building on IPFS protocol as a key enabling technology • Developed Web Native File System (WNFS) to add encrypted file capabilities and permissions • UCAN came out of a need for decentralized auth, built on DIDs, WebCrypto API, and JWTs • Use of standards, especially portable identifiers, to aid in interoperability and portability • Must work in all browsers, including mobile, without plugins 3
F R O N T E N D O N LY S T A C K 💵💵💵 Users 👨🏫👩🏭🧑⚕👷 Browser 🖥 Old Users 👨🏫👩🏭🧑⚕👷 Browser 🖥 Fission ⚛ API / GQL ↕ Developer 👩💻 Server ⚙ Fast app publishing 🔄 Data Store 🗃 DevOps 📤 Developer 👩💻 New Focus on end users 💁 Get paid 👨🎨 4
FISSION DRIVE Go try it! drive.fission.codes • WNFS public / private encrypted file system • Every Fission Account, developers and users, has this “open source iCloud” attached, which makes their files available from any browser • Fission Drive is our 1st party app to showcase our SDK and browse the file system
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