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ed25519 key did provider

This is a DID Provider which implements EIP2844 for did:key: using ed25519. It also supports decryption using x25519.

Installation

npm install --save key-did-provider-ed25519

Usage

import { Ed25519Provider } from 'key-did-provider-ed25519'
import KeyResolver from 'key-did-resolver'
import { DID } from 'dids'

const seed = new Uint8Array(...) // 32 bytes with high entropy
const provider = new Ed25519Provider(seed)
const did = new DID({ provider, resolver: KeyResolver.getResolver() })
await did.authenticate()

// log the DID
console.log(did.id)

// create JWS
const { jws, linkedBlock } = await did.createDagJWS({ hello: 'world' })

// verify JWS
await did.verifyJWS(jws)

// create JWE
const jwe = await did.createDagJWE({ very: 'secret' }, [did.id])

// decrypt JWE
const decrypted = await did.decryptDagJWE(jwe)

Classes

Functions

encodeDID

encodeDID(publicKey): string

Parameters

NameType
publicKeyUint8Array

Returns

string