Internet Identity Open Source

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Awesome! Any reason why this was written in Rust and not Motoko? Is the compiled WASM then deployed to the internet computer?

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There is some code in the canister (crypto stuff and CBOR encoding) where Motoko is still a few libraries short, so we opted for Rust.

Yes, the compiled wasm is deployed to the Internet Computer. You can even check which module precisely is running there:

~/dfinity/internet-identity $ dfx canister --network ic --no-wallet info rdmx6-jaaaa-aaaaa-aaadq-cai
Controller: r7inp-6aaaa-aaaaa-aaabq-cai
Module hash: 0xf43dfe544a2612ec3c4a0ee291fb4d69ccd01df5f2836c804619fe6a52a43ea0
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Are there any similar examples for clients that aren’t web-based?

For example, a CLI written in Rust that integrates with Internet Identity.

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No, but it’s rather trivial to write a frontend tool based on the Identity’s did file. I planned to create a dfx subcommand to do that, but didn’t get around to doing it yet. Or maybe someone beats us to it? It’s all out there!

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In Chrome on Windows 10, I get to this step and have no idea what it wants and see nothing in Dfinity help or Webauthn Google searches that help.

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Now I see Windows 10 allows a security key device like Ubikey. I understand the necessity but it’s sort of a “you got to be kidding me” moment that I have to buy a Ubikey, set up 2FA and/or not lose Ubikey and the backups. I don’t have the newest phone, so it can’t get on either. Ugh. Despite my extreme optimism about Dfinity, it might be a log time before I get on. Let me know if it starts supporting a username, password, and authenticator.

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I don’t think dfx is open source, is it?

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Not yet, but you can easily do that as a stand alone tool using just agent-rs, i.e. it does not have to be part of dfx.

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