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Decentralised user accounts

We seem not to have a bug for the age-old feature of decentralised user accounts. This would let users migrate or replicate their accounts between different homeservers, such that their homeserver is not a single point of failure for their account. See also https://github.com/matrix-org/GSoC/blob/master/IDEAS.md#decentralised-accounts Various possible ideas: * Make MXIDs a 3PID(!) https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3634 * Split users into alias & opaque ID, like rooms: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/494 * Use pub/priv keys for identity: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/778 * ...

Posted by ara4n on May 9, 2017, 6:50 PM

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Decentralised user accounts

ara4nMay 9, 2017, 6:50 PM

We seem not to have a bug for the age-old feature of decentralised user accounts. This would let users migrate or replicate their accounts between different homeservers, such that their homeserver is not a single point of failure for their account. See also https://github.com/matrix-org/GSoC/blob/master/IDEAS.md#decentralised-accounts Various possible ideas: * Make MXIDs a 3PID(!) https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/3634 * Split users into alias & opaque ID, like rooms: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/494 * Use pub/priv keys for identity: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/778 * ...

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