Poof! 🧙♂️ Gone will be the days of interacting with unknown canisters, without knowing who and what they are for, or having to hardcode that information to show it to users; and it’ll also open up the door to reduce risks in the future, by helping users identify risky canisters for example.
The current challenges we’re solving 🧰
Not all has been ☀️ and 🌈, there are still technical challenges to solve. Our main challenge right now is how to confirm who the controller of a canister is. Unfortunately, DFX does not let you make a call to an unowned canister to retrieve its controller.
Without being able to verify who owns a canister, we cannot know who to allow to set the metadata for the said canister.
Our current solution? Providing canister controllers with a simple method that they can copy/paste into their canister. That will allow DAB’s Canister Registry to ping their canister and check the controller. Pretty neat, huh! We’re still exploring other options, and we’ll share more when these are ready.
Source: https://medium.com/dab-ooo/dab-sesh-9-23-7b487ce854aa?source=rss——cryptocurrency-5
