Customer question: Are there solutions in daml addressing a person’s (eg a shareholder’s) access? In many DLT solutions, people use wallets based on PKI infrastructure, allowing owners to sign (their own) transactions. On the other hand, from a private network’s perspective, is it correct that acce…

I posted (what I think) is a similar question here: [image] PKI integration with Daml Questions Here’s a scenario I’m wondering about. Is it possible to: Write Daml app with a front-end that runs in your browser, and have the browser verify (client-side) that contracts h…

@Luciano yes that helps, thanks. So basically it comes down to trusting the participants who will validate the parties.

I also found this article which is also helpful. So if I understand it correctly, a public facing web site with a Daml ledger backend could implement an authentication mechanism using individually held private keys (ie client certificates), with the access token provider using the client presented …

I’m not very familiar with Canton myself so can’t speak to the latter question, but for the former, yes, you could imagine your token provider to authenticate based on certificates rather than OAuth or passwords. The Daml system only looks at the token you are presenting and checks that it has been …

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Luciano January 7, 2022, 9:38am 2

I posted (what I think) is a similar question here:

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