keyhive

Local first access control

Created at Ink & Switch, lead by Brooklyn Zelenka

Lab Notebook

Keyhive Background

We’ve seen user-agency principals successfully applied to other contexts. Signal popularized end-to-end encrypted chat while retaining much of the convenience of less-secure messaging applications. We find ourselves asking “what would Signal for documents look like?”

Code

https://github.com/inkandswitch/keyhive

• beelay-core: Auth-enabled sync over end-to-end encrypted data
• keyhive_core: The core signing, encryption, and delegation system
• keyhive_wasm: Wasm wrapper around keyhive_core, plus TypeScript bindings