S5 v1: Rewrite it in Rust (Large Grant Proposal)

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Progress Report (September)

What progress was made on your grant this month?

Milestone Tasks Progress

Can be validated by running cargo test in the s5_fs subdirectory

Can be validated by running cargo test in the s5_core subdirectory

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Remaining Tasks

  • Migrate the TypeScript library to the new file system

Jules has been busy with migrating most of s5.js to the new CBOR-based directory metadata structures, in October we will work together on upstreaming his changes to the official s5.js repository (see GitHub - julesl23/s5.js: TypeScript/JS Library for S5 · GitHub)

  • specs impl: accounts, identity

instead of implementing a completely custom identity solution, s5 now simply uses iroh ed25519 public keys for node identity and will likely use atproto’s did:plc for public identities covering multiple nodes.

What will you be working on next?

  • Work with Jules on upstreaming his changes to s5.js so they are properly migrated to be compatible with s5-rs and S5 v1

  • Extending the config format to allow configuring trusted third-party nodes and upload+pinning targets

  • Implement Sia RHP4 uploads and downloads in S5 using indexd

  • Make the RHP4 WASM-based blob proxy production ready, so devs can easily use files streamed directly from Sia hosts in their web apps

  • Release a stable v1 version of all S5 libraries and code

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