matrix-blockstack-password-provider 0.4.2

Password provider for blockstack synapse server

matrix-blockstack-password-provider

Matrix Synapse Authentication Provider for Blockstack IDs

Installation

Use pip install matrix_blockstack_password_provider to install the package in your synapse environment

Configuration

In homeserver.yaml edit the password_provider section:

password_providers:
    - module: "matrix_blockstack_password_provider.BlockstackPasswordProvider"
      config:
        enabled: true
        endpoint: "https://core.blockstack.org"

The endpoint is optional and defaults to https://core.blockstack.org

Known Homeservers for Blockstack users

• openintents.modular.im

Client support

• Currently only OI Chat supports this type of authentication.
• Client apps need to write a file mxid.json into the root of their gaia bucket. The content is the challenge received from the home server. Then for authentication, the client needs to send the blockstack id as username and as password a client app generated nonce that was used when requesting the challenge together with the app domain in the format nonce + "|" + appDomain