Core Library

The source for this part of the library can be found here.

Rebase is a library for building credentialing witnesses and clients to interact with them. Rebase is built on top of SSI and uses DIDs and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to create portable, specified credentials. Rebase provides abstractions for working with witnessed cryptographic signature-based attestations, linking cryptographic keys to traditional profiles and identities, and working with delegations to improve the experience for developers and users of applications with user-owned data models, along with other libraries available from Spruce, like Kepler for storage. The core library will not often be what developers directly work with. Often, the Witness SDK will be what is wanted for building clients / witnesses on the server-side, and the Client SDK be what is wanted for interacting with witnesses from the browser.

Architecture

This is a diagram of the credentialing flow that Rebase enables and with each step color-coded to show the module responsible for handling that portion of the credentialing flow:

Each of the color-coded modules corresponds to a folder in the src folder of this project. The additional three directories in the src folder are:

• context: A module used for setting up the context_loader, should be irrelevant to consumers.

• test_util: A module used only for internal testing.

• types: A module including all type and enum definitions to avoid issues with circular dependencies.

The big idea behind Rebase is abstracting the flow of data from the key type used in VC issuance. Key types are supported at two levels, as Subjects and as Issuers. All Issuers must implement Subject. Most often, a Subject is the public key of a key pair and Issuer is the full cryptographic key pair.The flow module is the representation of the data required and the verification checks needed to make a credential.

Each flow type (which includes traditional identities like "Twitter", "GitHub", "Email", credentials that link two keys, or credentials that are simply attestations by the Subject) is comprised of an entry in the statement, proof, content and flow. The proof often includes the statement, and the flow is in terms of all three others.

Because the flow and the issuer/subject modules only deal with each other abstractly; any time a new flow is added, it works with all existing issuers/subjects and vice versa.Implementing a new flow is as simple as implementing the three underlying traits (statement, proof, and content) and creating a validation of the proof, then implementing the flow type.

Examples can be found of the ten flows currently supported (Attestation (structures and statements signed by the Subject and witnessed by the Issuer), DNS, Email, GitHub, NFT Ownership, POAP Ownership, Reddit, SameController (links two keys), SoundCloud, and Twitter).

The main reason to fork or open PRs to this repo is for the purpose of adding new flows. Hopefully soon we will have a guide on how to do so, but for now there are some examples here.

To see how this library is used, please look at the Rebase Witness SDK and its demo project, the Rebase Cloudflare Worker.