generate a global identity keypair

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # cobox-config
 
-Stores and retrieves a YAML configuration file for use with the cobox stack.
+Stores and retrieves a YAML configuration file for use with the cobox stack. Also loads up master key to generate a global identity.
 
 ## Example
 
@@ -52,3 +52,6 @@ config.groups.list()
 ```
 
 List saved groups
+
+## Future Features
+* Store names against ID's in YAML config file for multiple identity capability

example.yaml

@@ -7,17 +7,3 @@ groups:
       symmetricKey: 7790efea443b9ebee384939bbd3f43d2841212790a0180342aca16a63f199431
   byName:
     group-a: *ref_0
-
-identities:
-  byKey:
-    736a1f0369923a5f1c8710ca1713bedccd8d051c42fe28b0bb031640f5293e4c: &ref_1
-      name: Alice
-      publicKey: 736a1f0369923a5f1c8710ca1713bedccd8d051c42fe28b0bb031640f5293e4c
-      secretKey: 7790efea443b9ebee384939bbd3f43d2841212790a0180342aca16a63f199431
-    ed49273be24fac7fce884a2908708e15abfb84b608b0084808968b4c75870218: &ref_2
-      name: bob
-      publicKey: ed49273be24fac7fce884a2908708e15abfb84b608b0084808968b4c75870218
-      secretKey: 54ddf6b77f306749737e8115efd31ffd1e4636d1336888cdfaf9dc2f91d45c7d
-  byName:
-    Alice: *ref_1
-    bob: *ref_2

index.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const logger = require('./logger')
 const crypto = require('cobox-crypto')
 
 const CONFIG_FILE = 'config.yml'
+const IDENTITY_SUBKEY_ID = 0
 
 module.exports = (storage, opts) => new CoBoxConfig(storage, opts)
 
@@ -20,7 +21,6 @@ const defaultOptions = () => ({
 const defaultConfig = () => ({
   options: defaultOptions(),
   groups: { byKey: {}, byName: {} },
-  identities: { byKey: {}, byName: {} }
 })
 
 // filename-safe date (probably there is a better way to do this)
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ class CoBoxConfig {
     if (!fs.existsSync(this.storage)) {
       fs.writeFileSync(this.storage, yaml.safeDump(defaultConfig(), { sortKeys: true }))
       this._groups = config.groups
-      this._identities = config.identities
       this._options = config.options
     } else {
       this.load()
@@ -52,11 +51,10 @@ class CoBoxConfig {
       this.masterKey = fs.readFileSync(masterKeyPath)
     }
 
+    this.identity = crypto.keyPair(this.masterKey, IDENTITY_SUBKEY_ID)
     this.logger = logger(path.join(this.root, 'logs', logfile))
     this.log = this.logger('cobox-config')
-
     this.groups = KeyHandler(this._groups)
-    this.identities = KeyHandler(this._identities)
     this.options = MapHandler(this._options)
   }
 
@@ -64,7 +62,6 @@ class CoBoxConfig {
     try {
       var config = defaultConfig()
       config.groups = this._groups
-      config.identities = this._identities
       config.options = this._options
 
       fs.writeFileSync(this.storage, yaml.safeDump(config, { sortKeys: true }))
@@ -79,7 +76,6 @@ class CoBoxConfig {
     try {
       const config = yaml.safeLoad(fs.readFileSync(this.storage, 'utf8'))
       this._groups = config.groups
-      this._identities = config.identities
       this._options = config.options || defaultOptions()
       return true
     } catch (err) {