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* docs: Access controllers. * test: Re-open an existing db using its address. * docs: Simple db interaction. * docs: Basic Identities. * docs: Storage. * docs: Implementing a custom database. * docs: Example OrbitDB AC. * docs: Use identity id when customizing access. * docs: canAppend. * docs: Graphically describe log joining. * docs: Update db types. * docs: Sync-ing. * docs: Reverse flow arrows. * docs: Logical clock. * docs: DB address and manifest. * docs: Move ops description to db. * docs: CRDT. * docs: Peer discovery, connecting ipfs nodes, orbitdb replication. * docs: Change file name case to match other documentation solutions (e.g. IPFS/libp2p). * docs: Links to CRDT papers. * docs: A getting started to get up and running quickly. * docs: Move replication to own readme. * docs: Links to various js-libp2p connection config. * docs: Examples for connecting two node servers. * docs: Server to browser connection. * docs: Replication how-to. * docs: Remove SYNC. * docs: Simplify oplog discussion. * docs: Connecting to IPFS in the browser. * docs: Topics moved to separate docs.
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Identities
An identity is a cryptographically signed identifier or "id" and can be used to sign and verify various data. Within OrbitDB, the main objective of an identity is verify write access to a database's log and, if allowed, to sign each entry as it is added to the log.
Identities provides methods to manage one or more identities and includes functionality for creating, retrieving, signing and verifying an identity as well as signing and verifying messages using an existing identity.
Creating an identity
const id = 'userA'
const identities = await Identities()
const identity = identities.createIdentity({ id })
Once created, the identity can be passed to OrbitDB:
const orbitdb = await OrbitDB({ identity })
Specifying a keystore
const keystore = await KeyStore()
const id = 'userA'
const identities = await Identities({ keystore })
const identity = identities.createIdentity({ id })