Project Health

Ursa is growing in adoption in projects, its feature offering, and contributor diversity. We have released three more versions since last update.

Questions/Issues for the TSC


Releases

v0.3.0 Dec 5 2019

v0.3.1 Jan 22 2020

v0.3.2 Feb 10 2020

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

  • Added key exchange for Curve25519 and K256
  • Allowed more methods over FFI
  • Allowed more methods over WASM
  • Adjusted how features can be included to be more flexible

Current Plans

  • Add ECIES encryption
  • Add signatures and key exchange for P224, P256, P384, P521
  • Implement more FFI for zmix
  • Finish designing hardware API
  • Implement CDLNT signatures (allows threshold based issuance and verification)
  • Add pw_hash methods
  • Implement Simplified SWU hash-to-curve

Maintainer Diversity


Current active maintainers

  • Mike Lodder (Sovrin Foundation)
  • Lovesh Harchandani (Evernym Inc.)
  • Brent Zundel (Evernym Inc.)
  • Dave Huseby (Linux Foundation)
  • Hart Montgomery (Fujitsu)
  • Dan Middleton (Intel)
  • Cam Parra (Kiva)
  • Dan Anderson (Intel)
  • Jon Geater (Jitsuin)

Contributor Diversity

Our contributor list has been relatively static, although we are optimistic of adding new contributors in the near future (e.g., for hardware support).

Current Contributors

  • Sovrin Foundation
  • Evernym, Inc
  • Intel
  • BCGov
  • Iqlusion
  • Jitsuin
  • Fujitsu

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4 Comments

  1. Tracy Kuhrt

    What projects are using Ursa?

    1. Hart Montgomery

      Indy and Aries actively use Ursa.  Ursa also currently supports Iroha and Transact.

      1. Jessica Rampen

        Hart Montgomery sounds like a good blog post on HL interoperability? (wink) Would you or someone else be willing to write that up? 

        1. Hart Montgomery

          I think Mike Lodder Mike Lodder would be the person best suited for this–he knows more about the interfaces than I do!