Important
As we do not use the DIDKit bindings internally anymore, we have decided to archive their respective repositories. If you are looking for alternatives, our Rust library ssi (on which DIDKit was built) is still in active deployment, and we have new mobile-focused libraries with sprucekit-mobile. And as always, you are welcome to fork our repositories.
Check out the DIDKit documentation here.
DIDKit provides Verifiable Credential and Decentralized Identifier
functionality across different platforms. It was written primarily in Rust due
to Rust's expressive type system, memory safety, simple dependency web, and
suitability across different platforms including embedded systems. DIDKit
embeds the ssi library, which contains the
core functionality.
DIDKit is available on PyPI.
You can install it globally with:
$ pip install -U didkit
asynciois required, meaning you will need Python 3.7 or above.
$ maturin buildYou can install
maturinwithpip install maturin.
Now the wheel should be in the target directory.
To enable or disable certain features of DIDKit, or use different cryptography
backends, you will need edit the Cargo.toml.
When adding a function or changing the signature of an existing one, make sure to reflect the changes in the stub file. This is important for static analysis and IDE support. (This will be automated in the future.)
poetry install
poetry run maturin develop
poetry run pytestFunctions have kept the same signatures, but some have become asynchronous. You
will need to start using
asyncio if it is not already
the case.
Please note: this readme documents an early-stage open-source product ported manually to python, and we are still incorporating feedback from our first comprehensive third-party code audit. These artefacts are presented as functional "betas" for experimentation and to show the direction of the project (inviting proposals for changes of direction, even!). They are not, however, intended for transacting real-world business yet.