Citizen Media Notary

!diagram

Working on this. Don't use in production yet.

Description

A system which enables 3rd party data observers who maintain a record of the authenticity of citizen media as it is recorded.

Check the slideshow: http://openwatch.net/static/evidence.key.pdf

Goals:

* Secure-by-default.
* Publically queriable (but perhaps not publicaly browsable.)
* Easy to deploy.
* Come up with a spec
* Federated servers? PubSub, maybe?

TODO:

* Review schema
* Crypto (Verification of signatures)
* Duplication
* Frontend

Language Choice

I think I'm going to do this one in Node because Django doesn't play super nicely with non relational databases.

The drawback is that Node is kind of a pain in the ass to deploy, especially with SSL.

Database

For now, it's gonna use CouchDB. Opinions welcome.

Install

Make sure you have latest node, npm and CouchDB installed.

> npm install

$3

* See ./crypto/CRYPTO.md for instructions.

$3

> node server.js

$3

If you're developing, it's easier to use Supervisior, which will automatically reload the app when it detects changes.
Supervisor requires that it be installed globally.

> npm install -g supervisor

> supervisor server.js

More details soon..