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I was working on the implementation of the Append right (#96) as I tried to solve the problem mentioned in the title. Imagine a user who creates a Message in...

joepio

Dealing with large 1-n relationships (Long arrays and chat feeds)

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We need a way to deal with `1-n` relationships for very big `n` values. Imagine we have a chatroom app, using Atomic Data. If we'd model this using some `ChatRoom`...

joepio

Commits have a `set` property, which can be used for adding items to arrays. However, this leads to sometimes unnecessarily large commits when an item is added to an array....

joepio

Have a way to easily validate JSON-AD

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I'd like users to be able to validate JSON-AD in their browsers. It should not be too hard to build this, but it would be useful to have this and...

joepio

Further explore DID + Atomic Agent compatibility

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There is overlap between how the Decentralized Identifiers spec and Atomic Data should work. Both emphasize self-sovereign identity management powered by cryptography. Currently, Atomic Data Agents have HTTP(S) identifiers. This...

joepio

There are many [use cases](https://w3c.github.io/vc-use-cases/) for verifiable credentials. One of the core features of Atomic Data is the Commit model, which makes data highly _traceable_. However, making sure that one...

joepio

One of the core concepts of Atomic Data is that users _sign_ their changes using their identity. This allows for fully traceable, verifiable information, which is one of the core...

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Users need to store their agent's secret (which includes the private key) someplace safe, such as a password manager. However, this is still not optimal: - The secret is entered...

joepio

First I felt like Agent was a bit more fitting, as it would also entail non-human actors. However, Agent feels unconventional and unfamiliarm compared to 'user', even though it is...

joepio

I'm currently using Ed25519 for signing Commits and requests, because: - It's fast, and we need to sign often client-side - [Doesn't break](https://security.stackexchange.com/a/41509/5701) with a broken number generator, such as...

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