Project Health

Ursa is growing in adoption in projects, its feature offering, and contributor diversity. We have released three more versions since last update.

Questions/Issues for the TSC

Releases

v0.3.0 Dec 5 2019

v0.3.1 Jan 22 2020

v0.3.2 Feb 10 2020

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

• Added key exchange for Curve25519 and K256
• Allowed more methods over FFI
• Allowed more methods over WASM
• Adjusted how features can be included to be more flexible

Current Plans

• Add ECIES encryption
• Add signatures and key exchange for P224, P256, P384, P521
• Implement more FFI for zmix
• Finish designing hardware API
• Implement CDLNT signatures (allows threshold based issuance and verification)
• Add pw_hash methods
• Implement Simplified SWU hash-to-curve

Maintainer Diversity

Current active maintainers

• Mike Lodder (Sovrin Foundation)
• Lovesh Harchandani (Evernym Inc.)
• Brent Zundel (Evernym Inc.)
• Dave Huseby (Linux Foundation)
• Hart Montgomery (Fujitsu)
• Dan Middleton (Intel)
• Cam Parra (Kiva)
• Dan Anderson (Intel)
• Jon Geater (Jitsuin)

Contributor Diversity

Our contributor list has been relatively static, although we are optimistic of adding new contributors in the near future (e.g., for hardware support).

Current Contributors

• Sovrin Foundation
• Evernym, Inc
• Intel
• BCGov
• Iqlusion
• Jitsuin
• Fujitsu

Additional Information

Reviewed by

• Angelo de Caro
• Arnaud J LE HORS
• Christopher Ferris
• Dan Middleton
• Gari Singh
• Hart Montgomery
• Mark Wagner (Deactivated)
• Nathan George
• Swetha Repakula
• Tracy Kuhrt
• Troy Ronda