Peer Channels
A secure inbox for Merkle proofs.
Peer Channels is a secure persistent messaging medium, allowing broadcast communication in a one-to-many manner between entities. It allows Mapi to broadcast a Merkle Proof to anyone involved with a payment.
The following steps provide an end to end process of the Peer Channels usage:
- 1.The sender sends payment to the receiver.
- 2.Once the receiver deems the payment to be valid (for example, ancestors is verified), they create a new Peer Channel.
- 3.Once the channel has been created, the receiver creates three API Tokens for the new channel, as follows:
- Two read only tokens
- One write only token.
- 1.The receiver broadcasts the transaction to mapi, with a callback url pointing to the new Peer Channel, and an auth token as the write only API token.
- 2.The receiver uses one of the read-only tokens to subscribe to the new Peer Channel for notifications.
- 3.The receiver sends the other read-only token, along with the Peer Channel information (peerchannel host name, peerchannel ID) back to the sender.
- 4.The sender uses this information to also subscribe to the Peer Channel for notifications.
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- 1.Once the block is mined, mAPI uses its callback URL and write-only API token to POST the Merkle proof for the block to the Peer Channel.
- 2.When the Peer Channel receives the proof, it notifies all subscribers of a new message (in this case, the sender and the receiver).
- 3.Both the sender and the receiver make a REST API call to the Peer Channel, with their write-only tokens, to receive the sent Merkle proof.
- 4.Both the sender and the receiver store the Merkle proof in their respective data stores.
Peer Channels
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