#19 – Brooklyn Zelenka: UCAN, Beehive, Beelay

The guest of this episode is Brooklyn Zelenka, a local-first researcher and creator of various projects including UCAN and Beehive. This conversation, will go deep on authorization and access control in a decentralized, local-first environment and explore this topic by learning about UCAN and Beehive. Later, the conversation will also diving into Beelay, a new generic sync server implementation developed by Ink & Switch.

Mentioned in podcast:

Brooklyn Zelenka: Website + GitHub + Bluesky + MastodonMessaging Layer Security (MLS)Messaging layer security: Encrypting a group chatTreeKEMGroup Messaging for Secure Asynchronous Collaboration by Matthew A. WeidnerBeehive lab notebookUCAN Working GroupUCAN - Be in control of your auth: Brooklyn Zelenka (Local-First Conf)AutomergeWNFS Working GroupRobust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control by Mark Samuel MillerSPKI Certificate TheoryEdwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)Comparison of Symmetric Encryption Methods

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