Re: Question regarding JSON-LD canonicalization

Hi Dave,

such a helpful response on a Sunday quite instantly! Thank you very much!

Greetings,

Andrreas
> On 10/25/20 11:30 AM, Andreas Kuehne wrote:
>> Hi Orie,
>>
>> thank you for your quick reply!
>>
>> Still I have some problems to understand the process based in the
>> specifications. As far as I understand the code the URDNA2015 normalizer
>> buils an array of NQuads. But that's not a hashable byte array. Do I
>> miss an important intermediate step?
> The content encoding of NQuads is always UTF-8.
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/n-quads/#sec-mediatype
>
> A byte array containing the UTF-8 encoded, lexicographically sorted,
> NQuads is what should be hashed. When producing an LD proof, there are
> some other steps that involve what constitutes the input to the signing
> process, which is what Orie linked to.
>
> In short, an LD Proof involves hashing the canonicalized, UTF-8 NQuads
> for the document to be signed, and hashing the canonicalized, UTF-8
> NQuads for the proof meta data. The two hashes concatenated together
> constitute the input to a given signature algorithm as the "verify data"
> to be signed, such that the entire document and all proof meta data are
> "covered content" by the signature.
>
> Orie's links should cover the above process in more detail if you're
> interested in producing LD proofs. If you're just looking for a hash of
> some RDF dataset (perhaps represented as a JSON-LD document), then you
> can simply get the normalized NQuads and serialize those using UTF-8 to
> a byte array and hash that.
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Andreas
>>> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld-signatures/blob/e3f7c1209f2adc0d3b9171083f98785d7a1d180d/lib/suites/LinkedDataSignature.js#L111
>>>
>>> https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld-signatures/blob/e3f7c1209f2adc0d3b9171083f98785d7a1d180d/lib/suites/LinkedDataSignature.js#L213
>>>
>>> See also the spec:
>>> https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ld-proofs/#create-verify-hash-algorithm
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> OS
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:30 PM Andreas Kuehne <kuehne@trustable.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi experts,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I would like to canonicalize a JSON-LD as a preparation for a signature
>>>> creation.
>>>>
>>>> Using jsonld-java and applied normalize() using URDNA2015. But the
>>>> output is not a byte array (ready for hashing) but a RDFDataSet. What's
>>>> the next step to retrieve a hashable byte array?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
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>

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