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Project TitleImplement Client Side Security for Climate SIG Fabric Application
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The Carbon Accounting and Certification Working Group is developing an Operating System for Climate Action, where there is a Hyperledger Fabric Utility Emissions Channel Project with utility data.  Currently, the security certificates for accessing Fabric are held server side.  A client application authenticates the user through standard username/password authentication and then access the Fabric chain code on behalf of the user. 

We would like to explore a client driven authentication for the Fabric application, similar to how Metamask is used with Ethereum dApps such as the Emissions Tokens Network Project.  In such a use case, the user would sign into a web portal, enter and upload their information, and then sign the transaction with a local security key or a dApp wallet such as Metamask.  

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