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Manual: Identities ↗

An identity is a cryptographic key that represents some kind of verifiable entity, be it a person, program, robot, computer, sensor or something else. It is the basis for all encrypted communication over Reticulum.cite-ref-1[1]

An identity can be used to create any number of destinations.

An identity consists of a 512-bit Curve25519 keyset:

• A 256-bit X25519 key for ECDH key exchanges

• A 256-bit Ed25519 key for signatures

Note: It is important to store an identity's private keys securely and privately. The loss of an identity's private key would mean the loss of control over its destinations.

Contents

• Hash

• Files

• See also

• References

Hash

Identities are represented by a 16-byte hash derived from truncating a full SHA-256 hash of the identity's public keys.

identity_hash = truncate(SHA256(concatenate(public_encryption_key, public_signing_key)))

It is displayed as hexadecimal bytes, for example: bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c

Files

In RNS, the identity of the default instance is stored in ~/.reticulum/storage/transport_identity. Other identities (such as network identity) are stored in the ~/.reticulum/storage/identities directory.