Home

HERMES-CORE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

Hermes is a unified key/encryption management scheme that provides a number of security guarantees through access compartmentalization and distribution of CRUD permissions to data blocks cryptographically.

Hermes-core is a proof of concept for Hermes – a practical data security scheme with the reference implementation, which enables distributed sharing and collaboration, enforcing access control cryptographically, while the maximum possible number of security guarantees for the protected data is preserved even in the case when one or more parts of the system are compromised.

INDEX

Getting started

• 1.1 What is Hermes-core
• 1.2 Quickstart
• 1.3 Oh, the Places You'll Go: What's Hermes useful for.

Understanding Hermes

2. Understanding Hermes

• 2.1. Abstract entities: Roles, records, backends, etc.
• 2.2. Architecture of Hermes-core components: What serves which purpose.
• 2.3. API: Hermes processes and API description.
• 2.4. Low-level API
• 2.5. Hermes security model

Using Hermes

3. Using Hermes-core

• 3.1. Building Hermes-core, building and verifying dependencies.
• 3.2. Building and using example apps:
  • 3.2.1. Local CLI example: Low-level all-in-one approach.
  • 3.2.2. Client-server

Customising Hermes

4. How to build your own Hermes-based application.

• 4.1. General plan / How to approach building Hermes-based apps
• 4.2. Core components: Hermes client (from C primitives to a Python wrapper)
• 4.3. Core components: Hermes server (from C primitives to a Python wrapper)

Tutorials

• 5.1 Python tutorial
• 5.2 C tutorial
• 5.3 Go tutorial

Getting really deep

• 6.1. What's where (Infrastructure)
• 6.2. How to change something in Hermes-core
• 6.3. Industrial tests