SEIP: Service for Encrypted Information Provider

Motivation for the project:

Foster the deployment of confidential and fine grade data access control DLT services, avoiding fragmentation and proliferation of siloed DLTs. SEIP contributes to the ONTOCHAIN reference architecture, its Trustworthy use-case, Secure Data Exchange, ID Management and Authorization Application.

Generic use case description:

SEIP enables a community to confidentially exchange information, without relying on 3rdy parties, setting up an autonomous, decentralized environment. SEIP fosters moving to “data embedded” confidentiality management, rather than “on top” approach.

Essential functionalities:

SEIP provides:
- oracle based KGS
- public data integrity
- personal keys request
- rule based key request evaluation
- wallet keys management
- access policies management
- access policies integrity
- on/off-chain data encryption
- events monitoring
- data decryption
- activities auditing

How these functionalities can be integrated within the software ecosystem:

The following SEIP components:
- KGS as DLT oracle
- wallet (private key management)
- smart contracts
- CP-ABE Policy Editor
- Features to encrypt/decrypt data
will integrate with:
- Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), Verifiable Credential (VC)
- Public DLT
- Decentralized service for data storage

Gap being addressed:

DLT is quickly moving from experiments to operational solutions. Communities need to address decentralization, security, and scalability, often achieved via private, permissioned DLTs. This creates silos that often do not interoperate, with the effect to hold back adoption of DLT and raising costs.

Expected benefits achieved with the novel technology building blocks:

SEIP contributes to the TRUSTWORTHY INTERNET via:
1) providing private and trustworthy data exchange
2) A scalable and flexible mechanism supporting “identification, authorization and role management of enrolled entities” by integrating DLT, VCs, SSI, CP-ABE
3) fostering communities/users autonomy

Potential demonstration scenario:

SEIP will deployed and assessed in a real context scenario (Dedit.io) and the ONTOCHAIN iExec Platform