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Introduction to HALO

HALO is a system of components for implementing decentralized identity designed around privacy, security, and collaboration requirements.

  • The HALO SDK is part of the DXOS client library and provides user authentication, identity, and contact management capabilities.
  • The HALO protocol supports the verification, transport, and exchange of identity information between networked peers.

Features

  • Public/private key-pair authentication mechanism integrated into ECHO
  • Passwordless log in
  • Local-first credentials and key storage
  • Multi-device synchronization of identities, credentials, ECHO spaces

Establishing user identity

There are a few ways a user can establish their identity (login) with DXOS on any given device.

  1. Initializing a new HALO identity for the user from a DXOS-powered application.
  2. Accepting a device invitation will synchronize the user’s identity from another device.
  3. Recovering an identity using a recovery code, sometimes referred to as paper key recovery.
  4. Recovering an identity using a passkey.

Next steps

How to read the HALO identity in code: