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Human-Centered Protocols

and

Zero Trust Architecture

Adrian Gropper

December 28, 2020

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Contents

  • The 5 roles defined by GNAP
  • Alice-to-Alice Relationships
    • New Identity Proof
    • Single Sign-On
    • Initialize a Persona (an identity)
    • New Service Registration
  • Alice-to-Bob Relationships
    • Service Request
    • Delegate Resource Access
  • Wallet vs. Confidential Storage Functions
  • Authenticator vs. Consent and Policy Manager Functions

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Guardian

Persona’s Agent (AS)

Secure User Agent (RO)

Encrypted Data Vault

chosen* by RO

Service Provider (SP)

Encrypted Data

Vault

chosen* by SP

Requesting Party

Secure User Agent (RQ)

Institutional Client (RC)

Note: The roles of RO, RQ, AS, SP, and RC are defined per IETF GNAP.

The protocol connecting the roles may be GNAP or other.

* Chosen in the sense that bill is paid and encryption key was / is known.

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Guardian

Persona’s Agent (AS)

Secure User Agent (RO)

Encrypted Data Vault

chosen by RO

Service Provider (SP)

Encrypted Data

Vault

chosen by SP

Requesting Party

Secure User Agent (RQ)

Institutional Client (RC)

Note: The roles of RO, RQ, AS, SP, and RC are defined per IETF GNAP.

The protocol connecting the roles may be GNAP or other.

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A1 - New Identity Proof

Biometric Unlock

Choose Authenticator

Holder

Attribute Presentation

Issuer’s

Attribute Presentation / Revocation

New Relying Party

Authority

- Proof

- De-duplicate

- Audit

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A2 - Single Sign-On

Biometric Unlock

Choose Authenticator

Holder

Attribute Presentation

Issuer

Attribute Presentation

Relying Party

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Guardian

Persona’s Agent (AS)

Secure User Agent (RO)

Encrypted Data Vault

chosen by RO

Service Provider (SP)

Encrypted Data

Vault

chosen by SP

Requesting Party

Secure User Agent (RQ)

Institutional Client (RC)

Note: The roles of RO, RQ, AS, SP, and RC are defined per IETF GNAP.

The protocol connecting the roles may be GNAP or other.

A3 - Initialize a Persona

- Unlock

- New Persona

- Inherit Policy

Choose Wallet

- New AS Instance

- Create DID

Update AS Policy Store

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A4 - New Service Registration

- Unlock

- Choose Persona

- Manage Policy

Choose Wallet

- Create DID

- Register as new customer

- Register AS

- Update AS Policy Store

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B1 - Service Request

- Get Request

- Eval Policy

- Issue Authorization

- Verify Auth’z

- Share Resource

- Enable Audit

- Update Policy Store

- Log Transaction Docs

Choose Wallet

- Unlock

- Present Claims

- Compose Request

- Present Authorization

- Access Resource

- Log Transaction Docs

- Update Resource Store

- Log Transaction Docs

- Audit Access

- Share Transaction Proof

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B2 - Delegate Resource Access

- Eval Scoped Auth’z

- Eval Exceptions

- Verify Auth’z

- Share Resource

- Enable Audit

- Log Transaction Docs

Choose Wallet

- Unlock

- Reduce Scope

- Share Deleg’n

- Present Authorization

- Access Resource

- Log Transaction Docs

- Update Resource Store

- Log Transaction Docs

- Audit Access

- Share Transaction Proof

Choose Wallet

- Unlock

- Present Claims

- Accept Auth’z

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Wallet Functions

- Biometric Lock

- (Single Sign-On) Authentication

- Non-repudiable Signature

- Recovery

- Redundancy

- Offline Functionality

- EDV Control

- AS Control

- Consent & Policy Manager API

EDV Functions

- Confidential Storage

- Wallet as Client

- AS as Client

- Mobile / Cloud Sync

- Delegated Access

- Encrypted Indexes

- (Intel SGX) Implem’n

- SMPC Implementation

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Authenticator Functions

- Biometric Lock

- (Single Sign-On) Authentication

- Non-repudiable Signature

- Recovery

- Redundancy

- Offline Functionality

- EDV Control

- AS Control

- Consent & Policy Manager API

Consent & Policy Manager Functions

- Biometric Lock

- (Single Sign-On) Authentication

- Non-repudiable Signature

- Recovery

- Redundancy

- Offline Functionality

- EDV Control

- AS Control

- Consent & Policy Manager API

EDV

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Guardian

GNAP AS

Mobile Wallet

CouchDB

Resource Server

Encrypted Data

Vault

chosen by SP

Secure User Agent (RQ)

Institutional Client (RC)

Note: The roles of RO, RQ, AS, SP, and RC are defined per IETF GNAP.

The protocol connecting the roles may be GNAP or other.