Mathematical Mesh: Reference Implementation
draft-hallambaker-mesh-developer-10
Network Working Group P. M. Hallam-Baker
Internet-Draft 27 July 2020
Intended status: Informational
Expires: 28 January 2021
Mathematical Mesh: Reference Implementation
draft-hallambaker-mesh-developer-10
Abstract
The Mathematical Mesh 'The Mesh' is an end-to-end secure
infrastructure that facilitates the exchange of configuration and
credential data between multiple user devices.
This document describes the Mesh reference code and how to install,
run and make use of it in applications. It does not form a part of
the Mesh specifications and is not normative.
This document is also available online at
http://mathmesh.com/Documents/draft-hallambaker-mesh-developer.html.
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Table of Contents
1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Related Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Getting the Reference Code and Build Tools . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Obtaining the Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Obtaining the Build Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. Obtaining the Mesh Source Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Compiling the Reference Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Creating a software signing key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Create (dummy) build action files . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Running the Reference Code Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. Starting the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. The Profile Manager Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. The Profile Connection Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Platform specific configuration data . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1.1. Private Key Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1.2. Registry settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1.3. Profile data files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.2. OSX and Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Using the Mesh C#/.Net Libraries in an Application . . . . . 9
6.1. Portals, Sessions and Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1.1. MeshSession vs PersonalSession . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2. Creating a Mesh Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.3. Creating a Mesh Session for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.4. Checking that a Portal Account name is acceptable . . . . 12
6.5. Creating a Personal Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.6. Creating an Offline Escrow Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.7. Deleting Profile Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.8. Recovering Profile Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.9. Connecting a New Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.10. Managing Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7. Using other languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.1. Lightweight API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.1. Reference Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.1.1. Coverage: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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