DID MEME
DID Meme Updates: Using a Joke Project to Experiment with Decentralized Identifiers Inside of Images
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Why DID Meme?
https://github.com/OR13/didme.me
I’ve made a number of updates to a joke project we’ve been using to explore experimental concepts.
Benefits over Previous Versions
It builds on did:jwk which is much simpler than did:key.
See the method spec for more details:
https://github.com/quartzjer/did-jwk
It uses a better steganography library that uses PNGs to transport hidden data:
https://github.com/paulmillr/steg
It uses an experimental library for post quantum cryptography, focused on representations for keys and signatures for Dilithium, Falcon and Sphincs:
https://github.com/transmute-industries/did-jwk-pqc
It uses an older weekend project we built that provides an emoji alphabet for base64url encodings:
https://github.com/OR13/demojid
We’ve enjoyed hiding public keys in images that have been generated from transformer models that are so popular on Twitter.
Here’s an example:
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