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Blockbox, authenticating Office documents with Bitcoin

The Blockbox Add-in creates a Lockbox for each document, allowing Office 365 apps to use Bitcoin SV to store and authenticate documents entirely on the blockchain.

Setup for development & testing

  • Install nodejs.org
  • Install git-scm.org
  • Open Command Prompt, run:
    • git clone https://github.com/derekm/blockbox.git
    • cd blockbox
    • npm install
    • npm run start:web
  • Go to Office Online, open a Word doc and:
    • click Insert ribbon
      • click Add-ins
      • click Upload My Add-in
      • click Browse...
      • select the manifest.xml file in the blockbox folder
      • click Upload
    • click Home ribbon
      • click Show Taskpane
  • Fund Lockbox
  • Split txns
  • Await confirmation
  • Upload
  • ???
  • PROFIT!

Known issues

Support for documents with only 1 file part was broken after the D:// protocol transaction was added to the upload process at the end of the hackathon.

Add-in works only for larger documents that require 2 or more file parts.

Questions and comments

We'd love to get your feedback about this sample. You can send your feedback to us in the Issues section of this repository.

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Copyright

Copyright (c) 2019 Derek P. Moore. All rights reserved.

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