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KeypairService

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This Service has been deprecated in favor of the new keys service which stores keys in the pod's /keys container instead of the filesystem. Please consider migrating by calling keys.migration.migrateKeysToDb. Before migration, the new service can not operate and ED25519 keys are not supported by this service. After migration requests will be redirected to the new service.

Features​

  • Key pairs management (create, get, delete)
  • Get remote actor public key
  • Attach public key to new actor
  • Automatically generate key pairs and attach the public key to new actors

Dependencies​

  • None

Settings​

PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorsKeyPairsDirStringrequiredPath to where the actor's key pair will be stored.

Actions​

The following service actions are available.

attachPublicKey​

Attach the public key to an actor data. Use the https://w3id.org/security#publicKey predicate.

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the given actor

delete​

Delete the private/public key pair of a given actor.

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the actor

generate​

Generate the private/public key pair for a given actor.

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the actor for which will generate the key pairs
Return​

String - The generated public key.

get​

Get the private/public keys of a given actor

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the actor
Return​

Object with two keys: publicKey and privateKey.

getPaths​

Get the path of the private/public keys of a given actor

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the actor
Return​

Object with two keys: publicKeyPath and privateKeyPath.

getRemotePublicKey​

Get the public key of a remote actor. Keep it in a local cache.

Parameters​
PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
actorUriStringrequiredURI of the remote actor
Return​

String - The public key of the remote actor.