Initial Community Review of dCBOR-rust & -swift

[ChristopherA]

• We have dCBOR rust, dCBOR swift, and a CLI app.

  • https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-dcbor-rust
    • Rust Idioms
      • Idioms - Rust Design Patterns
      • Idiomatic Rust | Slides + Coverage
      • mre/idiomatic-rust: 🦀 A peer-reviewed collection of articles/talks/repos which teach concise, idiomatic Rust.
  • https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/BCSwiftDCBOR
  • https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/dcbor-cli

• dCBOR can parse the following types:

  • https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-dcbor-rust/blob/master/src/decode.rs#L19

• Need to be able to explain what dCBOR is, and how it is generally useful (not just for Envelope, but anyone doing cryptography with CBOR).

  • …but we do need to connect we wrote it as a strong foundation for Gordian Envelope

• We are beginning an Initial Community Review

  • (Define What Is?)
    • Blockchain Commons is about community: we want you to look at libraries, see how they meet your needs, give us feedback for better doing so, and also help to review the libraries
  • We would like community review of API, code, rust idioms, add more code security tools
  • We would also like more test CBOR documents, such as a valid mDL, or COSE, etc. to use in our testing and docs.

• More to come

  • We have one of our sponsors contributing Kotlin bindings, seeking more bindings.
  • We'd like someone to do a Python port, we welcome other ports.
  • We are coordinating a special budget from our sponsors to do an independent third-party audit of the code. Please fund us as this is important code to get right!

• Library that has support and carefully thought about for Cryptographic purposes

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1. Review & Organize This
2. Define "What is a Community Review?"
3. Simple doc for dCBOR
4. Ask the community for some more test CBOR documents, such as a valid mDL, or COSE, etc. to use in our testing and docs.
5. Ask the CCG for the same (Are You Already doing CBOR? And if Envelope intrigues you, take a look.)
6. need promo (internal Gordian Community) and discussion seeded.
7. email to CCG list as it also is useful for a number of other projects (such as mID) that use CBOR.
8. tweet storm for developers
9. 4-5 posts to RWOT signal announcing library & seeking more real CBOR examples from other standards to test (per CCG)
10. 4-5 post to Gordian Developers Signal, with links and invite to next two meetings
11. Interlink Three README
12. Add all three to Gordian or Crypto Commons