Argos Notary Cloud

Argos Notary Cloud step-by-step

  1. Create profile

Login to Argos Notary Cloud with the OAUTH provider of choice.

  1. Create a Private Elliptic Curve key in your profile.

  2. Choose a domain to use.

e.g. example.com or argosnotary.com.

As an example for Maven artifacts a good choice would be the group id of your artifacts.

You should choose a domain for which you have DNS administrator rights available!

  1. Create TXT DNS record for the chosen domain.

It should be proven that you are or your organization is owner of the chosen domain. For this a DNS TXT record should be created with the combination of a part of your private key id, your public key and the domain.

Create A TXT record as <8 characters of your key id>.<your domain> with the your public key as value.

Example:

Private Key IdTXT recordRecord value (Public Key)
20c3a43ddd2796facd478a3d41060...20c3a43d.argosnotary.comMHYwEAYHKoZIzj0CAQYFK4...
# this command with the correct parms should give your public key
dig <8 characters of your key id>.<your domain> TXT +short
dig 20c3a43d.argosnotary.com TXT +short
# gives "MHYwEAYHKoZIzj0CAQYFK4EEACIDYgAE09dECSOPjZBa..."

This record is important and will be used as a root of trust in the future.

  1. Request ownership of your domain in Argos Notary Cloud at support@argosnotary.com

Add to the mail the used domain and key id of the created Private Key

The Personal Account with the private key will be Domain Owner and can give other Users permissions.

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