didkit 0.2.1

DIDKit python package

Check out the DIDKit documentation here.

DIDKit

DIDKit provides Verifiable Credential and Decentralized Identifier functionality across different platforms. It was written primarily in Rust due to Rust's expressive type system, memory safety, simple dependency web, and suitability across different platforms including embedded systems. DIDKit embeds the ssi library, which contains the core functionality.

Building

Make sure you have the latest versions of pip and PyPA’s build installed:

sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-virtualenv
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip build

Build DIDKit:

cargo build --release

Build the package

python3 -m build

Install the package

python3 -m pip install dist/didkit-`cat setup.cfg | grep version | cut -d' ' -f3`-*.whl

Maturity Disclaimer

In the v0.1 release on January 27th, 2021, DIDKit has not yet undergone a formal security audit and to desired levels of confidence for suitable use in production systems. This implementation is currently suitable for exploratory work and experimentation only. We welcome feedback on the usability, architecture, and security of this implementation and are committed to a conducting a formal audit with a reputable security firm before the v1.0 release.

We are setting up a process to accept contributions. Please feel free to open issues or PRs in the interim, but we cannot merge external changes until this process is in place.

We are also in the process of creating crates.io entries for the DIDKit and SSI packages.