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 + Mastodon
• Messaging Layer Security (MLS)
• Messaging layer security: Encrypting a group chat
• TreeKEM
• Group Messaging for Secure Asynchronous Collaboration by Matthew A. Weidner
• Beehive lab notebook
• UCAN Working Group
• UCAN - Be in control of your auth: Brooklyn Zelenka (Local-First Conf)
• Automerge
• WNFS Working Group
• Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control by Mark Samuel Miller
• SPKI Certificate Theory
• Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
• Comparison of Symmetric Encryption Methods

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
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• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

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