PROJECT: Standardized Hardware API for Cryptographic Interoperability

[shannona]

The Problem: as a developer, have to learn the APIs for a number of different hardware devices; as a user, you have the NASCAR problem of a list of providers. Worse, if any individual company changes their API, then everything breaks.

The Solutions: Develop a uniform API and architecture with relatively few commands, with capability-discovering on error that help to answer the hardware and network side of things.

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• Write Hardware Wallet Use Cases (early draft)
• Write Hardware Wallet Crypto API Analysis (spreadsheet)
• Analyze Patterns
• Define Goals of Principals
• Define Overall Architecture for Standard Wallet API
  • Integrate with SSKR Recovery
  • Update crypto-requests as Needed
  • Update Other URs as Needed
• Write Draft of Paper for Ideal API
• Update Wallet Architecture Diagram and Article (see RESCOPE: Update Universal Reference Architecture for Digital Wallets #writing #90)
• Implement MVP of API
• Choose branding for project
• Evangelize to community

This is expected to be a joint project of Blockchain Commons, CrossBar, and Proxy.

[ChristopherA]

Wish list for architecture:

• ProofPurpose (see Subtle and W3C VC Signature)