Re: looking for a specific use-case

We need auditors or notaries with strictly limited knowledge _in almost
every authorization_ .

Look at the recent news about widespread hacking / spying on non-classified
government and large corporate networks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/pompeo-says-russia-was-behind-cyberattack-on-us.html
or the solution to bots getting your PS5 before xmas
https://games.slashdot.org/story/20/12/17/1852210/cant-get-a-playstation-5-meet-the-grinch-bots-snapping-up-the-holidays-hottest-gift


Speaking in my role as invited expert, I'm afraid our rush to privacy (SSI
purity, don't phone home) in authentication without an equally thoughtful
model for authorization and audit will male privacy worse by creating a
false dichotomy with security. I see this risk throughout our work from
VCs, to DIDs, to Confidential Storage and Interoperability. Everywhere I
attend I am told we must do the simple thing first and layer authorization
and audit later. I'm not sure that's going to work in terms of either
privacy or adoption.

The alternative is to tackle zero-trust architecture right now while
avoiding compromise in our self-sovereign principles. These should (must)
not be competing priorities. I can also see the argument against my
proposal, which is that we will be limiting the generativity of our SSI
work and maybe shutting out some interesting and useful participants. I
don't know how to reach this balance without having the discussion about
authorization and audit sooner rather than later.

Adrian


On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 3:05 AM Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <
rieks.joosten@tno.nl> wrote:

> Just to be sure I understand what you mean to say with "This is the reason
> for de-duplicated identities and notaries in the real world": In the
> example, we have "data that identifies the dependent", which obviously
> identifies the dependent in the context of the issuer that created the
> credential. The problem however is that it may not do so in the context of
> the verifier. In my vocabulary, 'de-duplication
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication>' is the removal of
> copies of identical data, and I do not see how that fits here. Can you
> enlighten me? Rieks
>
>
>
> *From:* Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
> *Sent:* woensdag 16 december 2020 13:35
> *To:* Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <rieks.joosten@tno.nl>
> *Cc:* W3C Credentials CG (Public List) <public-credentials@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: looking for a specific use-case
>
>
>
> Yes, that makes perfect sense. This is the reason for de-duplicated
> identities and notaries in the real world.
>
>
>
> I wrote some of this up as the Zener Diode in
> https://github.com/w3c/did-use-cases/issues/102#issuecomment-703943437
>
>
>
> I've also heard an aspect of this described as 'sharing of liability' to
> certificate authorities where the CA is paid to isolate the issuer and/or
> the verifier from some liability.
>
>
>
> Whether you call it a notary or a CA the common thing is that:
>
> - they are bonded or certified as fiduciaries of the jurisdiction
> (typically the gov, but could be private)
>
> - they verify a de-duplicated identity for the subject
>
> - they keep a log that can be accessed at some significant cost if needed
>
>
>
> I worry that our SSI use cases tend to be simplistic and artificial by not
> including audit, authorization, revocation, and mediating service providers
> as primary concerns. As an engineer I appreciate the desire of engineers to
> "layer" things and to model simple issuer, holder, verifier, registry
> relationships. As a privacy engineer with deep regulatory experience, I
> feel this is overly simplistic and will harm the adoption of our hard work.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:48 AM Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <
> rieks.joosten@tno.nl> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Adrian, for your example. Let me summarize to see if I get the
> details:
> You have been appointed a guardianship (over some other person - the
> dependent) by the state, that issued a credential to certify that
> relationship.
> The credential contains data that identifies you, data that identifies the
> dependent.
> It may also contain the (financial) rights/duties that go with this
> relationship, but such rights/duties may also be implicit (e.g. the law
> specifies them).
> We have an SP that knows the dependent, and has some bad experiences with
> him/her.
> -- now comes the part on which I like to focus: --
> Then, the SP receives a request to provide some service, and it needs to
> know for/to whom to provide the service.
> In normal circumstances, a service would be provided for/to the requester,
> causing the SP to authenticate the requester so that it can find the
> requester's account, ,and be done with it.
> In guardianship circumstances, the requester can present a guardianship
> credential that allows the SP to authenticate you (and find your account)
> AND establish that you act as the guardian in a guardianship relationship
> (with some dependent).
>
> I guess the issue I try to identify (before making attempts to solve it)
> is what the SP would need to be in the guardianship credential that would
> allow it to find the account of the dependent if that were to exist. The
> problem here is that the issuer of the guardianship credential may put data
> in the credential to identify the dependent that makes sense to the issuer,
> but it may not necessarily make sense to arbitrary SPs.
>
> Does that make sense?
> Rieks
>
> From: Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
> Sent: dinsdag 15 december 2020 17:27
> To: Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <rieks.joosten@tno.nl>
> Cc: W3C Credentials CG (Public List) <public-credentials@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: looking for a specific use-case
>
> Legal guardian accessing financial info at Schwab (as SP)
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:16 AM Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <mailto:
> rieks.joosten@tno.nl> wrote:
> I'm looking for a use-case, which I think requires:
> • that is realistic;
> Common and I have first-hand experience as the guardian
>
> • that involves (at least) two people, as e.g. in a marriage, a
> guardianship or otherwise, and some service provider (SP);
> State-certified guardianship
>
> • where SP has no earlier knowledge of any of these two people (he doesn't
> know who these people are);
> The SP has a prior relationship with a money manager service but a tenuous
> relationship with the subject and no relationship with the (new) guardian.
>
> • where SP can obtain credentials from only one of these persons (the
> other is somehow incapable of presenting credentials);
> The guardian can provide a notarized document if necessary.
>
> • where SP is requested to make a decision (e.g. to provide a service);
> Access credentials to the guardian
>
> • where SP needs to authenticate *both* persons in order to make that
> decision.
> This is unclear. It sounds like you're looking for a new SP account like
> KYC but that does not involve a second party. If there is a prior account
> relationship with the SP then there is implicitly a link back to the
> account data subject.
>
> Adrian
>
> Any suggestions?
> Rieks
>
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