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# 1. Introduction

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The idstore package provides a server and client for managing user accounts.

### 1.2. Features

- Simple, centralized identity storage and password checking. Passwords are securely stored using PBKDF2.
- Email-based password reset functionality with a minimalist web interface.
- Full API access for all operations: Separate user-facing and administrator-facing APIs are exposed on different ports and are accessed using an efficient binary protocol over HTTP.
- Full Java API for performing user and administrative operations.
- Strong separation between administrators and users.
- Fine-grained capability based security model for administrative operations; Safely write external services that can perform administrative operations while maintaining the principle of least privilege.
- Command-line administrative shell.
- Complete audit log; every operation that changes the state of the system is logged in an append-only log.
- Fully instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
- A small, easily auditable codebase with a heavy use of modularity for correctness.
- An extensive automated test suite with high coverage.
- Platform independence. No platform-dependent code is included in any form, and installations can largely be carried between platforms without changes.
- OSGi-ready
- JPMS-ready
- ISC license.

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