12/18 Goodbye 2020 Edition

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Last updated: Dec 18, 2020 by Jessica Rampen
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Code & Projects

Hyperledger Labs: Solang

  • Release v0.1.6 is now available

    • New Visual Studio Code extension developed under Hyperledger Mentorship programme

    • Added language server for use in vscode extension

    • Implemented primitive types and operations for Solana

    • Functions can be declared outside of contracts

    • Constants can be declared outside of contracts

    • String formatting using python style "..{}..".format(n)

Hyperledger Labs: Business Partner Agent

  • Release bpa-0.1.0-alpha2.3 is now available
    • The Business Partner Agent allows to manage and exchange master data between organizations.

Hyperledger Labs: Perun

  • Release perun-node v0.5.0 is now available
    • Improvements in testing and contracts deployed on Ropsten Testnet.
  • Release go-perun v0.6.0 is now also available
    • Support for on-chain progression of app channels.

Hyperledger Aries

  • Aries Framwork Go release v0.1.5 is now available

    • Encrypted Storage Capability (#2199)

      • Support for encrypted storage. Encryption format and underlying storage providers are both pluggable.
      • Concrete implementation of the EDV encryption format (data model).
      • Concrete implementation of the EDV REST API as a storage provider.
      • Support for TrustBloc EDV Server extensions. These are optional and default to being disabled in order to ensure compatibility with purely standard EDV server implementation.

      LD Signatures

      • Support for capabilityChain in LD proofs (#2285)

      BBS+ Signatures 2020 (#1725)

      • BBS+ signer of VC
      • BBS+ selective disclosure of VC
      • Interoperability tests

      WebKMS

      • Add remote Webkms client as RemoteKMS kms.KeyManager implementation and RemoteCrypto crypto.Crypto implementation (#2313, #2307)
      • RemoteKMS and RemoteCrypto are Aries pluggable services (using WithKMS() and WithCrypt()) (#2313, #2307)

      Crypto

      • JWE key wrapping is extracted from the tinkcrypto keys and into the crypto.Crypto api (ie introduction of WrapKey()/UnwrapKey() calls) (#2301, #2300, #2299, #2271, #2257, #2256)
      • Add internal remoteCryptoBox service to support legacyPacker using remote keys (#2369)

      did:web

      • Support for did:web resolution was added (#2288 )

Noteworthy Pull Requests

Hyperledger Avalon

Hyperledger Aries Toobox

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