Re: RDF Dataset Canonicalization - Formal Proof

> It seems to be worthwhile to standardize this, as it would enable
selective disclosure with

standard crypto (e.g. ECDSA instead of BBS+, which is known to be at least
a little less secure

cf. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-53018-4_20)


Totally agree that BBS+ is *newer* crypto (still been around for ~15 years
and used in production implementations such as EPID though) so there is
potential benefit in also having a scheme that backs on to something like
ECDSA, I don't think there will be complete feature parity between the two,
but nor does there need to be for each scheme to have value.


Just a note on the paper you shared, BBS+ is a generalized signature scheme
that can be used in conjunction with any pairing based elliptic curve. The
paper you cite is primarily concerned with a brand of attacks otherwise
known as exTNFS attacks that affect some pairing based curves such as the
BN* family, however our implementation and the one used in the draft Linked
Data Proofs spec <https://w3c-ccg.github.io/ldp-bbs2020/> uses BLS12-381 which
is not affected
<https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-cfrg-pairing-friendly-curves-07.html>.

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:14 AM Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

>
> Tobias,
>
> One idea with the LD signature redaction suite that never took off was
> to have the issuer generate an HMAC key and use that to generate the
> salts -- and then give the holder the HMAC key so they can do the same
> when sharing.
>
> On 3/28/21 4:33 PM, Steve Capell wrote:
> > Hi Tobias
> >
> > Good questions - which I’ve forwarded to the Singapore team for an
> > authoritative answer
> >
> > Here’s my non-authoritative attempt
> > - salts are an array of uuids I think -
> > see https://edi3.org/specs/edi3-notary/develop/#611-salting-the-data
> > - signature correlation - not sure but I’d mention that all use cases
> > for this approach so far are for cross border trade documents where the
> > subject is a public identifier such as a business number.  The design
> > intent is that the identity is correlatable.
> > - we haven’t noticed performance issues of any significance but we are
> > talking volumes of only a few million per year
> >
> > Steven Capell
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> >
> >> On 28 Mar 2021, at 2:53 pm, Tobias Looker <tobias.looker@mattr.global>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> > I’m a big fan of this approach, a form of redaction distinct from zk
> >> forms of selective disclosure.
> >>
> >> > There was an attempt to spec one here in the CCG three-four years
> >> ago, but it died on the vine.
> >>
> >> I'm also interested in learning more about this approach too, the
> >> questions I had last time were
> >>
> >> 1. How the salt for each redactable statement would be managed in a
> >> way that would not leak the abstraction that "Linked Data Proofs" sets
> >> up. For example would the attached proof block have to have a long
> >> array of salts?
> >> 2. Proof sizes, having to have a salt per-statement signed as a part
> >> of the proof would significantly increase the size of the proofs
> >> representation.
> >> 3. Signature correlation, perhaps not important in this scheme, but I
> >> think the approach would require revealing a fixed signature
> >> regardless of which parts are redacted from the original proof?
> >> 4. Performance? Also perhaps a non-issue but if anyone has
> >> info/benchmarks around how the scheme might scale with the size of the
> >> data graph signed, that would be great to look at?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
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> >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 3:49 PM Christopher Allen
> >> <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com
> >> <mailto:ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 7:22 PM Steve Capell
> >>     <steve.capell@gmail.com <mailto:steve.capell@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         The Singapore government https://www.openattestation.com/ does
> >>         this already . Version 3 is W3C VC data model compliant
> >>
> >>         Each element is hashed (with salt I think) and then the hash
> >>         of the hashed is the document hash that is notarised
> >>
> >>         The main rationale is selective redaction (because the root
> >>         hash is unchanged when some clear text is hidden). But I
> >>         suppose it simplifies canonicalisation too...
> >>
> >>
> >>     I’m a big fan of this approach, a form of redaction distinct from
> >>     zk forms of selective disclosure.
> >>
> >>     There was an attempt to spec one here in the CCG three-four years
> >>     ago, but it died on the vine.
> >>
> >>     I’d be interested is seeing this spec & implementation. Any links?
> >>
> >>     — Christopher Allen [via iPhone]
> >>
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