@dignetwork/dig-client

DIG read-crypto for the browser and Node, compiled to WebAssembly. This is the published, installable form of digstore's dig-client-wasm crate — so consumers npm i it instead of vendoring the .wasm with a hand-copied SHA.

The visitor's runtime does ALL the crypto, so dighub and the serving CDN stay blind: they never see plaintext, the URN, or any key. The three read-path primitives let you VIEW DIG content without trusting the host:

1. URN reconstruction — reconstructUrn, reconstructUrnWithRoot, retrievalKey. The CDN is addressed by retrieval_key = SHA-256(canonical_urn); the URN itself is never sent.
2. AES-256-GCM-SIV decryption — deriveKey, decryptChunk, decryptResource, decryptResourceToText. Per-URN key via HKDF-SHA256 (public: URN alone; private: URN + 32-byte secret salt).
3. Inclusion-proof verification — verifyInclusion. Verifies served ciphertext against a root the client trusts from the chain (read from coinset.org, never from the serving response). A decoy / wrong-store / tampered response returns false.

Plus encryptResource (pre-encrypt a file before upload so the server compiles the .dig from ciphertext alone) and version() (the crate version, for compat/SRI checks).

Install

npm i @dignetwork/dig-client

Use — browser / bundler (Vite, webpack, Next)

The default and browser/import conditions resolve to the --target web build, which initializes asynchronously and installs globalThis.digClient:

import init, { retrievalKey, verifyInclusion, decryptResourceToText } from "@dignetwork/dig-client";

await init();                                   // also installs globalThis.digClient
const rk = retrievalKey(storeId, resourceKey);
const resp = await fetch(`${CDN}/stores/${storeId}/content/${rk}?root=${root}`);
const proofB64 = resp.headers.get("X-Dig-Inclusion-Proof");
const ciphertext = new Uint8Array(await resp.arrayBuffer());
const trustedRoot = /* read from coinset.org singleton state */;
if (!verifyInclusion(ciphertext, proofB64, trustedRoot)) { /* not found / decoy */ }
const html = decryptResourceToText(storeId, resourceKey, ciphertext, proofB64, trustedRoot, /*salt*/ null, /*chunkLens*/ null);

Use — Node

The node condition resolves to the --target nodejs build, which initializes synchronously (no init()):

import { retrievalKey, verifyInclusion, decryptResourceToText, version } from "@dignetwork/dig-client";
// or: import * as dig from "@dignetwork/dig-client/node";

const ok = verifyInclusion(ciphertext, proofB64, trustedRoot);

Need a specific target regardless of environment? Import the explicit subpath: @dignetwork/dig-client/web or @dignetwork/dig-client/node. The raw binary is at @dignetwork/dig-client/dig_client_bg.wasm.

Integrity (SRI / provenance)

The wasm binary is byte-identical across the web and node targets, so there is ONE digest to pin. It is the canonical trust anchor — pin and verify it regardless of the npm semver, so a wrong/tampered artifact fails closed even if the version looks right.

• version() (runtime) and the package version are the same string.
• @dignetwork/dig-client/integrity.json ships { version, sha256, sri } (machine-readable), and package.json mirrors digIntegrity.sha256 + .sri.

import integrity from "@dignetwork/dig-client/integrity.json" assert { type: "json" };
// integrity.sha256 — lowercase hex SHA-256 of dig_client_bg.wasm
// integrity.sri    — "sha384-…" for a <script integrity> / fetch SRI check

Verify the installed binary:

sha256sum node_modules/@dignetwork/dig-client/dig_client_bg.wasm
# must equal the sha256 in integrity.json

The current dig_client_bg.wasm SHA-256 is recorded in integrity.json and printed by the build (assemble-pkg). It is the same digest for every target in a release.

Replaces vendoring

hub.dig.net, dig-embed.js, dig-companion, and dig-sdk currently VENDOR this wasm (hand-copied .wasm + glue + a re-asserted SHA). They can switch to npm i @dignetwork/dig-client and pin integrity.json's sha256 instead of maintaining a private copy. The vendored fallbacks can be removed once switched.

License

GPL-2.0-only. Source: https://github.com/DIG-Network/digstore (crate crates/dig-client-wasm).