keyboot

single sign-on offline key server using asymmetric crypto in the browser with hyperboot for caching

example

To get your own keyboot server up and running, just do:

$ npm install -g keyboot
$ keyboot server -p 8000

For a full working example, consult:

• http://keyboot.hyperboot.org
• http://keyboot-example-app.hyperboot.org

and the keyboot-example-app source code.

methods

To build applications that talk to keyboot, you can use these methods from your browser code.

var keyboot = require('keyboot')

var kb = keyboot(url, opts={})

Connect to the keyboot app running at url in a hidden iframe.

Request opts.permissions, an array of permissions that map to methods available on kb:

• 'sign'
• 'fingerprint'
• 'publicKey'

kb.sign(text, cb)

Sign a string or array buffer text.

cb(err, res) fires with an error or a Uint8Array signed blob res.

kb.fingerprint(cb)

Request a fingerprint.

cb(err, hash) fires with an error or the fingerprint hash that uniquely identifies the user by the hash of their public key.

kb.publicKey(cb)

Request the user's public key.

cb(err, pubkey) fires with an error or a json web key (JWK) for the user's public key.

events

The keyboot interface sets up an event bus internally using page-bus that emits events for authorization state changes.

kb.on('approve', function () {})

Emitted when the authorization request was approved.

kb.on('reject', function () {})

Emitted when the authorization request was rejected.

kb.on('revoke', function () {})

Emitted when previously-accepted access is revoked.

kb.on('pending', function () {})

Emitted when the instance is waiting for an answer to the access request from the remote keyboot app.

This is a good time to show the user a link to the keyboot url so they can approve the application.

usage

This package ships with a keyboot command for quickly starting up a server:

keyboot server { -p PORT, -d DIR, --verbose }

  Start a keyboot server on PORT, writing hyperboot files to DIR.
  
  If --verbose, print each http request.

install

With npm, to get the library do:

$ npm install keyboot

and to get the keyboot command do:

$ npm install -g keyboot

or you can fetch a pre-built version of the browser library with browserify cdn:

http://wzrd.in/standalone/keyboot@latest

license

MIT