Introducing FormThing: End to End Encrypted Forms on the Blockchain
A proof of concept enabling you to create beautiful, fully accessible forms and control your own data.
This could be entered in to either of the IBE or Group Sharing categories - I’ll let the judges decide where it best fits as I’m not quite sure!
Introduction
FormThing was created for Web3 companies to “do forms” the Web3 way:
- Login via Web3 wallet (Internet Identity)
- Create and manage forms as needed
- Manage user access to forms and submissions
- Turn submissions on or off (active / inactive form)
- Share public URL to created forms for submissions
- Store your data on the blockchain instead of trusting it to the big boys (Google Forms, Typeform etc). Form submissions:
- Are End-to-end encrypted
- Only readable by who you choose to give access
- Cannot be read by the blockchain nor the smart contract
- Protected from spam by a simple nonce system
- Exportable to CSV to do with as you please
Full information about how it all works can be found in the Github repo linked below.
Helpful Links
vetKey system API
This was easy to use and addresses the needs for this use case. I was initially concerned after looking at the demos and playing with using symmetric_key as the derivation_path, until ya’ll pointed me in the right direction and updated the demos and vetkd_utils to include ibe_encryption. Once I’d wrapped my head around that, it was extremely simple to then gate-keep who gets access to derive a given key.
Feedback
Please reach out to me if you have any feedback - I’d love to hear it!
Edit 1: Update video link
Edit 2: Add in vetKey system API feedback