Remove khipu proof-mechanism (#84)

also upgrade github actions

AB#8731

Author: eccles

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     - name: Install dependencies

.github/workflows/python-publish.yml

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: '3.x'
     - name: Install dependencies

DEVELOPERS.md

@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ export TEST_PROOF_MECHANISM="-i SIMPLE_HASH"
 
 If TEST_VERBOSE is "-v" debugging output will appear when running the tests.
 
-TEST_PROOF_MECHANISM must be either "KHIPU" or "SIMPLE_HASH"
-
 ## TEST_NAMESPACE
 
 If TEST_NAMESPACE is blank or unspecified then each execution of './scripts/samples.sh' will not be

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 cryptography~=41.0.2
-rkvst-archivist==0.25.2
+rkvst-archivist==0.26.0
 pyyaml~=6.0.1