Part 3 - Key retrieval - Wiki OpenEthereum Documentation

Alice now decides to share her encrypted document with Bob. To do so, all she has to do is send the encrypted document to Bob along with the Document Key id. Remember, this is the identifier of the document on the Secret Store, we chose it to be the sha256 of the (decrypted) document. In this section, we will see how Bob can retrieve the keys from the Secret Store to decrypt the document Alice sent to him.

1. Sign the Document key id with Bob’s account

Just like we did for Alice, as a mean to sign our messages, we need to first sign this Document key id with the address of Bob. secretstore_signRawHash local client method can be used:

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "secretstore_signRawHash", "params": ["0xfeacd0d28fd158ba2d3adb6d69d20c723214edc9", "bobpwd", "0x45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2"], "id":1 }' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8545/

• 0xfeacd0d28fd158ba2d3adb6d69d20c723214edc9 is Bob’s address (created in Part 1)
• bobpwd is Bob’s password
• 0x45ce99addb..2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2 is the Document key id given by Alice.

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

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0xa589bebde7944fd4e01bd3a984fadb1ac0345aec445742e6ff34bb8b81cee5ba01dabfd199a3c90faea62b34051dd12f56e4af70027fd66b19e7f0038bfc158301",
  "id": 1
}

2. Ask the Secret Store for the decryption keys

Bob can now call the Secret Store to retrieve the document’s keys.

curl http://localhost:8010/shadow/45ce99addb0f8385bd24f30da619ddcc0cadadab73e2a4ffb7801083086b3fc2/a589bebde7944fd4e01bd3a984fadb1ac0345aec445742e6ff34bb8b81cee5ba01dabfd199a3c90faea62b34051dd12f56e4af70027fd66b19e7f0038bfc158301

• http://localhost:8010: is the address and port at which SS1 exposes the Secret Store HTTP API;
• 45ce99addb..3086b3fc2: is the Document key id given by Alice along with the encrypted document;
• a589bebde7..bfc158301: is the signed Document key id generated in the previous step;

Bob receives as a result the triple (decrypted_secret, common_point, decrypt_shadows):

{
  "decrypted_secret": "0x9b5aa977f537d24c5f523f67a95329bdd147e6be1b0d913c1506d2a0a210ab24ce380787d9b81f88fd05dfcfc083c8df56569a763440a1159a41db144a0d3d6b",
  "common_point": "0xf0e62b05b68b1847ad948572a1b04a91dee7d7dca2f675fd00c136eb706d4916fb1fcdd446ab9df236eba3ab8d6184b7b3f4e8584259b5e2dc6dff8bcb07c632",
  "decrypt_shadows": [
    "0x0478055ba0c544032560c4db1fbe02cd848217a9d9e476dc3a4f7f2c6dbe9535f64b947d813a42e77a3d21ccbd46a50f10c6a556daa897ed4e80d9938f696b2efde9558da7a1e0c2290fc97d0594a134a2a2fc316250808fb43e42bcfb3586e74a97dde2c6403f25b0952e15e7b2a4d11dab01f1d77d0e39fc98a83bf2971e190bed38108dfe9f6be7c29f9fe1c868df7c",
    "0x04733d896fc8279b3c8209e10dd12f7c052ac9d8f171dff174e2183f68720294b162e879166ae744883c74cbe56528c2908a4d17c6f245d9158491351cc1f11ecf79f8e9b828963e07c839eaf923c2db29d2c85d282326f83e9ccac334e3abf3e99b7e41811940426f97995494e2bae53f0ddd38ccd6dba26847723a77629f703c564c14da4880521e192976e09e7499a4"
  ]
}

Note that the Secret Store nodes log the following:

0x83a0…75b4: version negotiation session completed
0x83a0…75b4: version negotiation session completed
0x83a0…75b4: decryption session completed

As a test, you can try to perform the same call while the nodes 2 and 3 are offline (keeping the node 1 up as it is the only one that exposes an HTTP API):

• Shutting down node 2.. the call is still successful!
• Shutting down node 2 and 3, the call returns a 403 HTTP header with the message Consensus unreachable because Alice has set a threshold of 1 for the server key generation. Given 3 Secret Store nodes overall, it means that 2 out of 3 nodes are needed to reconstruct the encryption/decryption keys.

3. Decrypt the document

Bob can now use the triple together with the local method secretstore_shadowDecrypt to decrypt the document.

curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "secretstore_shadowDecrypt", "params": ["0xfeacd0d28fd158ba2d3adb6d69d20c723214edc9", "bobpwd", "0x9b5aa977f537d24c5f523f67a95329bdd147e6be1b0d913c1506d2a0a210ab24ce380787d9b81f88fd05dfcfc083c8df56569a763440a1159a41db144a0d3d6b", "0xf0e62b05b68b1847ad948572a1b04a91dee7d7dca2f675fd00c136eb706d4916fb1fcdd446ab9df236eba3ab8d6184b7b3f4e8584259b5e2dc6dff8bcb07c632", ["0x0478055ba0c544032560c4db1fbe02cd848217a9d9e476dc3a4f7f2c6dbe9535f64b947d813a42e77a3d21ccbd46a50f10c6a556daa897ed4e80d9938f696b2efde9558da7a1e0c2290fc97d0594a134a2a2fc316250808fb43e42bcfb3586e74a97dde2c6403f25b0952e15e7b2a4d11dab01f1d77d0e39fc98a83bf2971e190bed38108dfe9f6be7c29f9fe1c868df7c","0x04733d896fc8279b3c8209e10dd12f7c052ac9d8f171dff174e2183f68720294b162e879166ae744883c74cbe56528c2908a4d17c6f245d9158491351cc1f11ecf79f8e9b828963e07c839eaf923c2db29d2c85d282326f83e9ccac334e3abf3e99b7e41811940426f97995494e2bae53f0ddd38ccd6dba26847723a77629f703c564c14da4880521e192976e09e7499a4"], "0x237ac394e3f6cbe7395fc7076a3b58036a0e185a519e41b35a87ba73679cc1bb"], "id":1 }' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8545/

• 0xfeacd0d2..9d20c723214edc9 is Bob’s address.
• bobpwd: is the password for Bob’s account.
• 0x9b5aa977..a41db144a0d3d6b: is the value of decrypted_secret generated at the previous step.
• 0xf0e62b05..c6dff8bcb07c632: is the value of common_point generated at the previous step.
• ["0x047805..f9fe1c868df7c","0x04733d89..e7499a4"]: is the value of decrypt_shadows generated at the previous step.
• 0x237ac394..a87ba73679cc1bb: is the encrypted document data that Alice sent to Bob.

The result is the decrypted Document!

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x6d79536563726574446f63756d656e74",
  "id": 1
}

Bob can now decode the Document with the command

echo 0x6d79536563726574446f63756d656e74 | xxd -rp
mySecretDocument #HOORAY !!

4. Section overview

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