ara-network

Tools for launching nodes that interact with the ARA Network.

Status

This project is still in alpha development.

Dependencies

• Node

Installation

$ npm install ara-network

API

ara-network-node(1)

Launches nodes that interact with ARA Network.

Usage

$ ann -h (help)
$ ann -t <name after 'ara-network-node'> (launch node by name)
$ ann -t . (launch node in current directory)
$ ann -t <relative path> (launch node by relative path)

Example

Launch ara-network-node-dht

$ ann -t dht

ara-network-keys(1)

Create & Manage ARA Network Keys used in Handshake V2

Prerequisite

Create an ARA ID for the server node using the AID CLI or the create() method

Usage

$ ank -h (help)
$ ank -i <DID> \
      -s <shared-secret-string> \
      -n <keyring-name-entry> \
      -k <output-keyring-file> (create new shared network key)

Examples

• Create new shared network key for DID 86533105b0906a782b67f1aa8266a69c606fd6df948d22178390df4a395f267a using ara-archiver as secret & remote1 as the keyring-name-entry

$ ank -i 86533105b0906a782b67f1aa8266a69c606fd6df948d22178390df4a395f267a \
      -s ara-archiver \
      -n remote1 \
      -k ~/.ara/keyrings/ara-archiver

• The above command would create a set of shared network key files (i.e) a secret key and a public key
• If the mentioned keyRing file already exists for the mentioned DID, the keyring-name-entry would be just appended to the keyring array. Else, it will create a new set of files

Delegation

• Use the secret-key, shared-secret-string & keyring-name-entry to start up the remote node and then share the public-key along with the shared-secret-string & keyring-name-entry to all the peers who would want to communicate with the server

Appending

• When appending new entry into an existing keyring file, make sure to use a new keyring-name-entry. Also, make sure to use the same DID & shared-secret-string for appending

Contributing

• Commit message format
• Commit message examples
• How to contribute

See Also

• ara-network-node-dht
• ara-network-node-dns
• ara-network-node-signalhub
• ara-network-node-identity-archiver
• ara-network-node-identity-resolver

License

LGPL-3.0