Part 2 - Document encryption - Wiki OpenEthereum Documentation

Alice’s Secret Document is the following text: “mySecretDocument”

In this section, we will generate an encryption key based on the Secret Store Server key and encrypt the document. We will also associate the document with the generated key in order for a 3rd party to be able to retrieve the decryption key (Step 3).

1. Choose a Document key id for this document

We will need to identify this specific document on the Secret Store with 64 characters. This Document key id will be used often throughout this tutorial. A good candidate for the Document key id is the hash of this document. Let’s generate its sha256 hash as a Document key id using the following command:

echo -n mySecretDocument | sha256sum
45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2

Every call to the Secret Store will contain this id (45ce99a..86b3fc2), in order for the Secret Store to know what document we call it for.

2. Get the server key for this document

At this stage, it is very important to understand when we interact with the Secret Store (using ss1’s HTTP API and port 8010) and when we use the HTTP JSON-RPC API from Alice’s node (using the port 8545).

• Any call to http://localhost:8010 that has arguments in the url is a call to the ss1 node (at step 2.2 to generate a key from the Secret Store for instance).
• Any call to http://127.0.0.1:8545 with JSON-RPC data and a method name such as secretstore_signRawHash is a local call from a user to its own node.

2.1 Sign the Document Key id

We need to tell the Secret store about this document (identified by its Document key id). As a mean to sign our messages, we need to first sign this Document key id with the address of Alice. secretstore_signRawHash local client method can be used:

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "secretstore_signRawHash", "params": ["0xe5a4b6f39b4c3e7203ca8caeecbad58d8f29b046", "alicepwd", "0x45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2"], "id":1 }' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8545/

• 0xe5a4b6..58d8f29b046 is Alice’s address (created in Part 1)
• alicepwd is Alice’s password
• 0x45ce99..083086b3fc2 is the Document key id Alice chose at step 1.

The result is the signed Document key id with Alice’s account.

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x5fcf1622c1301cb8332ab589f4f7abd66a21f27636382d57b5ae6d376bab010a2e47c4ad027c96e8e41660d29292c2844454f212b36a7834b64be71f9bd3ac0400",
  "id": 1
}

2.2 Generate the Secret Store Server key

Making sure that all Secret Store nodes are running, we can now generate a Server-key

curl -X POST http://localhost:8010/shadow/45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2/5fcf1622c1301cb8332ab589f4f7abd66a21f27636382d57b5ae6d376bab010a2e47c4ad027c96e8e41660d29292c2844454f212b36a7834b64be71f9bd3ac0400/1

• http://localhost:8010 is the url of our SS1 node and its Secret Store HTTP port.
• 45ce99a..1083086b3fc2 is the Document key id defined earlier.
• 5fcf162..1f9bd3ac0400 is the signed Document key id generated in the previous step.
• 1 is the chosen threshold. We will allow the generation of the key if 2 out of 3 nodes are up and running.

The result is the public portion of the Server key:

"0xddb96b9bb227273121486bef7ffd9a5549f1f73b28e46d5c0592854b7545b0c59846eecd84e7180dec60fe673168d5e789eda21438030eee56dbaaa5b2279e10"

Note that the Secret Store server logs show something like: 0x83a0…75b4: generation session completed

3. Generate the Document key from the Secret Store key

Alice can now use the local method secretstore_generateDocumentKey to generate Secret Store keys.

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "secretstore_generateDocumentKey", "params": ["0xe5a4b6f39b4c3e7203ca8caeecbad58d8f29b046", "alicepwd","0xddb96b9bb227273121486bef7ffd9a5549f1f73b28e46d5c0592854b7545b0c59846eecd84e7180dec60fe673168d5e789eda21438030eee56dbaaa5b2279e10"], "id":1 }' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8545/

• 0xe5a4b6..29b046 is Alice’s address (created in Part 1)
• alicepwd is Alice’s password
• 0xddb96b..279e10 is the public portion of the Server key generated by the Secret Store in the previous step (2.2).

The result is the encrypted_key and pair (common_point, encrypted_point) that will be used to encrypt the Document (offline).

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "common_point": "0xf0e62b05b68b1847ad948572a1b04a91dee7d7dca2f675fd00c136eb706d491604e0322bb954620dc9145c54729e7b484c0b17a7bda64a1d2392007334f835fd",
    "encrypted_key": "0x042abe5fc72abebb654a92665f669c4503c79c5324fe4e143bf6c5ca3c738352bbc9e5d48e10f55651df8f77af1a4670278c5fc16574b08f3fff0dc8e5e35ab6b305f56d3ba6b8a9b92a8229578f350ac9a180a1eea25367ca0f6feb74dbf2dc5a69e895c99210d7d608320b76a8f736014783babeb405a8aeedb7536a130bc861d74364a388f95d91a48871427932dce5784e9c817971dcca5ad88cb222a3d4dc804f6efdd0193fa1e331382a5b586df7",
    "encrypted_point": "0x49808bd32126e1cd78a96a01e2fb931b0b04f6f5123a3f2fd42e20eaa1aac83a157f7ad4be57518137d51d05a47341bd04b6f873dcd00ac533e783f8e2b87e8b"
  },
  "id": 1
}

4. Document encryption

Using the encrypted_key generated in the previous step, Alice can now encrypt her document using the local method: secretstore_encrypt

The document must be encoded (locally) in Hex. We use the xxd command for this:

echo -n mySecretDocument | xxd -p
6d79536563726574446f63756d656e74

Alice can then encrypt her secret document:

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "secretstore_encrypt", "params": ["0xe5a4b6f39b4c3e7203ca8caeecbad58d8f29b046", "alicepwd", "0x042abe5fc72abebb654a92665f669c4503c79c5324fe4e143bf6c5ca3c738352bbc9e5d48e10f55651df8f77af1a4670278c5fc16574b08f3fff0dc8e5e35ab6b305f56d3ba6b8a9b92a8229578f350ac9a180a1eea25367ca0f6feb74dbf2dc5a69e895c99210d7d608320b76a8f736014783babeb405a8aeedb7536a130bc861d74364a388f95d91a48871427932dce5784e9c817971dcca5ad88cb222a3d4dc804f6efdd0193fa1e331382a5b586df7", "0x6d79536563726574446f63756d656e74"], "id":1 }' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8545/

• 0xe5a4b6f39..f29b046 is Alice’s address (created in Part 1)
• alicepwd is Alice’s password.
• 0x042abe5..a5b586df7 is the encrypted_key generated at the previous step.
• 0x6d79536..56d656e74 is the hex encoded secret document that Alice wants to encrypt.

The result is the encrypted secret document that Alice will be able to share.

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"0x237ac394e3f6cbe7395fc7076a3b58036a0e185a519e41b35a87ba73679cc1bb","id":1}

5. Store the Document key on the SS

The Secret Store was used at Step 2.2 to generate a Server key, used to generate locally the encryption key. Note that at this point, the Secret Store does not have the information that Alice has encrypted her document, and what key was used. In this step, we will store Alice’s key in the Secret Store for others to be able to access it if she decides so. The Document key id will be associated to this key using the common_point, encrypted_point pair generated offline at Step 3.

curl -X POST http://localhost:8010/shadow/45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2/5fcf1622c1301cb8332ab589f4f7abd66a21f27636382d57b5ae6d376bab010a2e47c4ad027c96e8e41660d29292c2844454f212b36a7834b64be71f9bd3ac0400/f0e62b05b68b1847ad948572a1b04a91dee7d7dca2f675fd00c136eb706d491604e0322bb954620dc9145c54729e7b484c0b17a7bda64a1d2392007334f835fd/49808bd32126e1cd78a96a01e2fb931b0b04f6f5123a3f2fd42e20eaa1aac83a157f7ad4be57518137d51d05a47341bd04b6f873dcd00ac533e783f8e2b87e8b

Here:

• http://localhost:8010 is the address on which node is listening for incoming requests;
• 45ce99addb..3086b3fc2 is the Document key id we chose at the begining of this section;
• 5fcf1622c1..bd3ac0400 is the signed Document key id from step 2.1;
• f0e62b05b6..334f835fd is the common point portion of encrypted document key received at step 3;
• 0x49808bd3..8e2b87e8b is the encrypted point portion of encrypted document key received at step 2.

All Secret Store servers should show something like: 0x83a0…75b4: encryption session completed

6. Section overview

Here is a flow diagram that represents what calls Alice has performed either to her own OpenEthereum node or to the Secret Store.