Re: Major security hole in Hyperledger Fabric - Private Data is not private #fabric-chaincode #ssl #fabric #fabric-questions #fabric-dstorage
Alexandre Pauwels
Hey Ivan, Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you are thinking that the private data as implemented is flawed, and that the requirement to salt the data to secure it defeats the purpose of having the blockchain in the middle; again, let me know if this is a bad assumption of your thinking. However, the private-data store (which I'll call the pre-image store) and the chain of hashes (which I'll call the block store) exist for parallel but complementary reasons. The block store cannot exist on its own as it stores no useful data which can be acted upon, this is obvious. It is simply a list of updates to salted hashes. The pre-image store cannot exist on its own as, when you receive new information, you have no idea if the person giving you the information is giving you the same information that everyone else has. The purpose of the chain of hashes is to ensure that the plain-text information you have is the same copy of the plain-text information that everybody else has. The role of ensuring that the data initially placed on the chain is accurate is NOT something that is determined by either data storage methods, it's something that's determined by the logic in your chaincode, e.g. in your example, you would be unable to send an update claiming your national ID is "7654321" in the first place, as the government which wrote the chaincode that you are calling would not allow you to do so. A better example would be to say that you are a bad actor and you would like to fool someone into thinking you are individual with ID "7654321". You would give them your public cert and your claimed ID along with a salt, and they would be unable to verify it as when they query for the national ID by the cert and then hashed it with the salt you gave, the hashes would not match. Hope that makes sense, Alex
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:59 PM Ivan Ch <acizlan@...> wrote: Hi Yacov,
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