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How to distinguish between witness proofs and controller proofs #114

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brianorwhatever opened this issue Oct 2, 2024 · 2 comments
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Currently the only difference between a witness proof and a controller's proof is that the witness will likely be a did:tdw. This isn't a particularly useful way to determine which is which. I think we need a better technique.. might be one reason for #66

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swcurran commented Oct 2, 2024

As I was writing this — I think the answer is that the DID of the DID Controller MUST be a did:key, and MUST be in the authorized key array. Conversely, witness did’s MUST NOT be did:key, and witness DIDs MUST be in the witness list.

A bit of data sniffing, but I don’t think outrageous. The question is whether it is better or worse than using Proof Chains, given their lack of implementations?

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@brianorwhatever -- do you want to see this added to the spec? Seems it would be useful.

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