identify

Identify

At the moment this project just serves as a platform for me to learn about auth systems. Feel free to submit issues but I'm not quite ready for pull requests. Use at your own risk, this code is far from being production ready.

Identity authentication and authorization service. Identify provides a secure interface for authenticating one's identity and provides token-based authorization for other services.

Setup and Installation

make
sudo make install

Quickstart

Create an identity

Before starting Identify as a service, you must create an identity.

$ identify new identity
> Enter passphrase:
> Administrative identity created xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

Generate a self-signed certificate

Identify's web server will only host over HTTPS which requires certificates to be provided for the server's identity. While using a certificate from a 3rd-party authority is recommended for public-facing websites, Identify can also generate self-signed certificates using the ECDSA key from an identity.

$ identify new certificate -id=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Enter passphrase:
> Certificates written to ~/.identity/certificate.pem ~/.identity/key.pem

Start web server

With certificates in place, identify can listen for HTTPS traffic on port 8443. An identity must be specified for the server to operate on-behalf-of. Tokens generated by the server will be signed using the Ed25519 key for the given identity.

$ identify listen -id=xxxxxxxx-xxxx--xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Enter passphrase:
> Identify listening for HTTPS traffic on 0.0.0.0:8443...

License

Identify Copyright (C) 2020 Alexei Broner

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.