Lightweight Selective Disclosure for Verifiable Documents on Blockchain
arXiv:2103.07655 · doi:10.1016/j.icte.2021.08.012
Abstract
To achieve lightweight selective disclosure for protecting privacy of document holders, we propose an XML format for documents that can hide arbitrary elements using a cryptographic hash function and salts, which allows to be partially digitally signed and efficiently verified, as well as a JSON format that can be converted to such XML. The documents can be efficiently proven to exist by representing multiple such structures as a Merkle tree and storing its root in blockchain. We show that our proposal has advantages over known methods that represent the document itself as a Merkle tree and partially hide it.
10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table