Introducing Signare, a Hyperledger Lab


    
      
        
        
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          Introducing Signare, a Hyperledger Lab

        

        
           Written by Peter Munnings (COO at Adhara), Marelize Kriel (Cryptographer at Adhara and Signare maintainer) and Coenie Beyers (Head of R&D at Adhara and Signare maintainer) | Sep 11, 2024 7:32:38 PM 
        

        
          Contributors from Adhara and ioBuilders are teaming up to launch Signare, a Hyperledger lab, which is an enterprise-grade digital signing solution for Ethereum clients.


Signare focuses on delivering an enterprise-grade digital signing solution for Ethereum clients. The application consists of a REST API server to manage resource configuration and an ETH-JSON 2.0 server to provide functionality for the use of generating, removing, listing and signing Ethereum transactions.

The objective of Signare is to provide a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliant signing solution for enterprise applications. Signare is built from the ground up to provide signing solutions for organizations that need:

	Enterprise grade software 
	Can integrate into the organization’s Authentication Service
	Can run in High Availability environments
	Has mature Roles Based Access Control (RBAC)



	Keys stored in Hardware Secure Modules (HSMs) or HSM backed cloud services
	FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliant
	PKCS#11 protocol implementation


Signare is intended to complement some of the existing Hyperledger projects and has been tested with the following:

	Hyperledger Besu
	Harmonia, a Hyperledger Lab


The roadmap for Signare includes testing with

	Hyperledger Firefly


How to contribute

Signare’s documentation includes

	A getting started guide
	Full Reference: Documentation 
	An OpenAPI Specification
	Role-based access control documentation.
	Security model information.
	User guides
	Configuration guides


Using the above documentation, you can get started with Signare, and you can deploy and test the software using the test suite that is provided in the repository.

Once you are comfortable with the product, we would encourage you to contribute to the project and we’ve created the following in the repository

	Guidelines for contributing.
	Standards for writing code.
	Guide of the standards of how to document the code.
	Guide for integrating with a new HSM.
	Guidelines for creating pull requests.


We look forward to hearing from you.

For detailed information and documentation on Signare visit the 

Signare page on GitHub

You can also learn more from this talk by the Signare developer community:



 

 

 

        

        
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