Active about coze

[zamicol]

Glad to have you here!

I apologize for the delay, I didn't see the notification for the request.

Was there anything in particular that piqued your interest? Also, if there's a side channel to discuss, I'll send you my email where I'm much more responsive. We also have a matrix room: https://app.element.io/#/room/#cyphrmepub:matrix.org
I can also send you the telegram link in a side channel.

[mprimeaux]

Thanks for the warm welcome.

I use Coze in our hosted platform and noticed (1) it's in alpha and (2) there hasn't been any commits in approximately 5 months, which is why I asked if this was still active.

What is your vision for Coze?

I am on element but can't seem to find the cyphrmepub room on matrix.org.

[zamicol]

Yes.

[zamicol]

This should work: https://matrix.to/#/#cyphrmepub:matrix.org

We've talked a lot about it's future. It might just stay largely as it is and supporting signing only.

From a design philosophy perspective, Coze should stay simple and only incorporate components that are almost guaranteed to be useful in the future regardless of how cryptography evolves. So that means focusing on general concepts and providing fields that generalize cryptographic concepts. Many crypto foundations are unlikely to change since they are informationally fundamental. I see cryptography expanding but not really changing its foundations. Also, there's CozeX for all the crazy experiments we'd like to do.

I hope Coze moves slowly and deliberately.

The next two big things I was going to dig into was encryption and a binary form. Also have been discussing having an alternative to pay or perhaps some other (eloquent) means of doing "Unicode canonicalization", e.g. recursively sorting by Unicode order for a canonicalization method. I think we can pull of encryption pretty easily, I just have not invested the time into a clean design yet.

Separately from Coze itself I've been working on authentication using Coze. We already do this to a small degree, but working on building out next steps for that.

Ruff draft for binary form: https://github.com/Cyphrme/CozeX/blob/master/proposal/booze.md

The only group that I'm aware of that share our general design philosophies is the old Unix guys and IPFS: https://github.com/multiformats/multibase#multibase-table

[zamicol]

Is there anything from Coze in particular you'd like to see?