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emdee 2022-09-22 00:29:24 +02:00
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Previous: [[MultiDeviceAnnouncementsPush]]
So what is the blob of information that is pushed by DHT annoucements.
It has these charachteristics:
1) It has 2 things - a name and a payload.
2) It is small - 1K to 4K in size.
3) The name is related to an derivable from the PersonaID - say the name is the PersonaID for now.
4) It it pushed regularly so people can get the PersonaID relatively soon - say hourly for now.
5) It is encrypted so that the contents can not be seen in transit.
6) It is encrypted so that it can be verified to be from the PersonaID.
So here is a best guess of how the encryption works. I'm not a crypto guy, so please take it with a grain of salt and help with suggestions.
The blob is intended to be the mapping to an active ToxID, and could be a mapping to a set of ToxIDs, the set of that Personas devices, with one marked active. This set of ToxIDs could be keys that open the encrypted blob. Anyone who already has a ToxID of the Persona could open the blob to get the update.
Unknown for now is does the client have to send an add request to the new ToxID to make it active?
Either way the clients would manage this seemlessly to aggregate the two ToxIDs together under one Persona that is shown to the user.