blindrsa-ts: A TypeScript Library for Blind and Partially-Blind RSA Signature Protocols

Specification: Library is compliant with the RFC-9474 document by IETF/IRTF, with Partially Blind RSA Signatures Draft 02, and matches the provided tests vectors, resp.

Blind RSA Signature Protocol

The RSA Blind Signature Protocol is a two-party protocol between a Client and Server where they interact to compute

sig = Sign(sk, input_msg)

where input_msg = Prepare(msg) is a prepared version of the private message msg provided by the Client, and sk is the private signing key provided by the Server.

 Client(pk, msg)                      Server(sk, pk)
-----------------------------------------------------
input_msg = Prepare(msg)
blinded_msg, inv = Blind(pk, input_msg)
                      blinded_msg
                      ---------->
               blind_sig = BlindSign(sk, blinded_msg)
                       blind_sig
                      <----------
sig = Finalize(pk, input_msg, blind_sig, inv)

Partially-Blind RSA Signature Protocol

One possible generalization of the protocol above is Partially-Blind Signatures, in which an additional info string can be provided, allowing public metadata to be shared.

 Client(pk, msg, info)          Server(sk, pk, info)
-------------------------------------------------------
input_msg = Prepare(msg)
blind_msg, inv = Blind(pk, input_msg, info)
                      blind_msg
                      ---------->
          blind_sig = BlindSign(sk, blind_msg, info)
                       blind_sig
                      <----------
sig = Finalize(pk, input_msg, info, blind_sig, inv)

Usage

Variants Supported

This package supports the four variants specified in RFC9474. Consult Section 5 of the document for the proper usage of each variant in an application.

import { RSABSSA } from '@cloudflare/blindrsa-ts';
const variants = [
    RSABSSA.SHA384.PSS.Randomized,
    RSABSSA.SHA384.PSSZero.Randomized,
    RSABSSA.SHA384.PSS.Deterministic,
    RSABSSA.SHA384.PSSZero.Deterministic,
];

In addition, it supports the four variants specified in Partially Blind RSA Signatures Draft 02. Consult Section 6 of the document for the proper usage of each variant in an application.

import { RSAPBSSA } from '@cloudflare/blindrsa-ts';
const variants = [
    RSAPBSSA.SHA384.PSS.Randomized,
    RSAPBSSA.SHA384.PSSZero.Randomized,
    RSAPBSSA.SHA384.PSS.Deterministic,
    RSAPBSSA.SHA384.PSSZero.Deterministic,
];

Platform specific configuration

Optimizations

By default, this library uses the WebCrypto API. Certain platforms, such as Cloudflare Workers, have implemented native operation. These can be enabled by passing { supportRSARAW: true } when retrieving a suite. At the time of writing, this dedicated optimization is done only for the BlindSign operation. Key type does not have to be modified, and will be set to RSA-RAW by the library for the time of the operation.

Partially Blind RSA verification

This library does not support Partially Blind RSA signature verification in browser. This is due to crypto.subtle implementations not allowing large public exponents required by Partially Blind RSA. You can follow bugs for Chromium and Firefox.

Setup

Once a Blind-RSA variant was chosen, start by generating the server's key pair. Both the key length and the public exponent can be specified.

const suite = RSABSSA.SHA384.PSS.Randomized();
const { privateKey, publicKey } = await suite.generateKey({
    publicExponent: Uint8Array.from([1, 0, 1]),
    modulusLength: 2048,
});

Server distributes its public key to clients.

Partially Blind RSA Signatures consideration

Partially Blind RSA Signatures requires Client and Server to have a public byte array info shared out-of-band. Where applicable, this byte array has to be provided as a parameter. Please refer to the example provided in examples/partially_blindrsa.ts to see usage.

Step 1

The client prepares arbitrary input to be blindly-signed by the server. The blind method generates a blinded message and an inverse object that later will be used during the finalization step.

const msgString = 'Alice and Bob';
const message = new TextEncoder().encode(msgString);
const preparedMsg = suite.prepare(message);
const { blindedMsg, inv } = await suite.blind(publicKey, preparedMsg);

The client sends only the blinded message to the server.

Step 2

Once the server received the blinded message, it responds to the client with a blind signature.

const blindSignature = await suite.blindSign(privateKey, blindedMsg);

The server sends the blinded signature to the client.

Step 3

The client produces the final signature using blinded signature received from the server together with the inverse object generated at the first step.

const signature = await suite.finalize(publicKey, preparedMsg, blindSignature, inv);

Thus, the client obtains a pair (preparedMsg, signature) which can be verified for validity.

Step 4

Anyone with access to the server's public key can verify the signature on top of the preparedMsg.

const isValid = await suite.verify(publicKey, signature, preparedMsg); // true

Development

Task	NPM scripts
Installing	$ npm ci
Building	$ npm run build
Unit Tests	$ npm run test
Examples	$ npm run examples
Code Linting	$ npm run lint
Code Formatting	$ npm run format

Dependencies

This project uses the Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library sjcl. Use the following command to configure the library.

make -f sjcl.Makefile

License

The project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.