Identity Machine

The identity machine is responsible for management of data and operations related to identities, including:

• creating & deleting identities, handled by the Identity Management Engine

• encrypting to & decrypting as identities, handled by the Encryption Engine and Decryption Engine

  • In general, a node has only one Encryption Engine and one Decryption Engine. Each EncryptRequest or VerifyRequest specifies what identity they're referring to.

• creating & verifying commitments, handled by the Commitment Engine and Verification Engine

• Note that there is a Commitment Engine and/or a Verification Engine created on a node for each identity the node has. References to the Commitment Engine and/or Verification Engine can be used as a kind of permission, ensuring that only processes which have been given such a reference will be able to commit or verify with a specific identity.

• tracking relationships between identities, including

  • which identities can sign for other identities, handled by the Signs For Engine

  • which identities can read for other identities, handled by the Reads For Engine

• tracking names associated to identities, handled by the Name Engine

An identity is as defined in Identity.