HyFi GREAT (Global Repository for E-signatures And Timestamps) is a blockchain for:
The actual data or file to be signed or verified does not need to be uploaded to the blockchain. Only the hash needs to be submitted.
How do you prove a trade secret?
Trade secrets are an important form of intellectual property (IP). Examples: customer lists, business strategies, research reports, etc. Every business has trade secrets - from tiny startups to global corporations.
But there is a very important difference between trade secrets and other forms of IP.
A trade secret is only valuable as long as it is a secret. You can make everyone sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before sharing trade secrets with them. But the critical question is - how do you PROVE that someone has misused your trade secrets?
While trademarks, patents, copyright, and designs are disclosed to the world and can be registered, trade secrets cannot be disclosed or registered.
So, how do you PROVE that someone has misused your trade secrets?
HyFi GREAT (Global Repository for E-signatures And Timestamps) is a blockchain for storing date and time-stamped digital fingerprints of any data, proving its existence at a specific point in time.
All you need to do is push the hash of a file along with suitable metadata to HyFi GREAT. Only the hash of the data is pushed to the blockchain, not the actual data. So your trade secret stays secret.
This timestamped and blockchain recorded hash can be used in a court of law to provide proof-of-existence of your trade secret.
How do you prove that your idea, music, source code, digital asset, or other original creation existed before someone else’s?
The answer - HyFi GREAT.
HyFi GREAT is a blockchain that provides a time-stamped "digital fingerprint" of any file or data and proves its existence at a specific point in time.
Benefits of HyFi GREAT
Use cases
Authentication and verification of the contents of paper-based documents is very challenging. Additionally, paper-based records pose several challenges and suffer from several inherent problems.
Because of this, the world is moving onto electronic signatures and digital documents.
HyFi GREAT can be used for creating and verifying electronic signatures. The actual data or file to be signed or verified does not need to be uploaded to the blockchain. Only the hash needs to be submitted.
GREAT APIs can be very easily integrated with existing content & document management systems.
Authentication and verification of the contents of paper-based documents is very challenging because:
Paper-based records pose several challenges and suffer from several inherent problems:
HyFi GREAT can be used for:
Some of the benefits of using HyFi GREAT are:
Let's take a simple example.
Step 1: Key generation
Rajnikant generates two keys, a public key, and a private key. These keys are nothing but extremely large numbers. Although the keys are mathematically related, it is "computationally infeasible" to obtain the private key by using the public key. A signature created by Rajnikant’s private key can be verified using Rajnikant’s public key.
Rajnikant's public key
03954458fe54151b32a035e6179b18a74cb027b0201404c522a41efdc043f0a138
Rajnikant's private key
VAV9DaTL8S4WjVCiezmGRTASH26GNmuaDVkee2jamZKVyWDLjMPE32R1
Rajnikant shares his public key with the whole world (through his website, blog, email, etc.) but keeps his private key to himself.
Step 2: Computing the hash
Now, Rajnikant wants to share his research on "self-driving cars" with his friend Scarlett Johansson. To do this, he creates a pdf file with details on his research.
Rajnikant computes the hash of the pdf document containing his research. A one-way hash function takes an input (e.g. a PDF file, a video, an email, a string, etc.) and produces a fixed-length output e.g. 160-bits. The hash function ensures that if the information is changed in any way – even by just one bit – an entirely different output value is produced.
Let's check out the sha256 hashes for three words - sanya, SANYA and Sanya.
The cryptographic hash for the word sanya is:
834ac48d8e6d1d7f0b8d21a5b3e81446f5a4caa63765cc23836f61844b67fb83
The cryptographic hash for the word SANYA is:
4247bff9d41c0f2da68ef43c5624531da9ca5bc31b39760a67e32265082e1ba8
The cryptographic hash for the word Sanya is:
513a15ed036e62c14b41b2608a5bb18aa7af2a3502c90b892f9dddabaf136bc2
It can be seen that by changing the case of the letter S, from small to capital, an entirely different hash value is generated. What must be kept in mind is that irrespective of the size of the input, the hash output will always be of the same size.
Two things must be borne in mind with regard to one-way hash functions:
Step 3: Signing the document
Rajnikant now "electronically signs" the pdf. For this, his software takes the hash and Rajnikant's private key and uses an algorithm to compute the electronic signature for the file:
IK+0M1DdcCnjIzVB4j997WusLlglq3rhBFsqEsuxkOZ7XwseQR2yJQ9/eOp/h/a6lt38iTu4aYceSx1yE1oUYIs=
Step 4: Verifying the signature
Rajnikant emails the pdf and the electronic signature to Scarlet. She takes the document and computes the hash. Since the hash function software will always produce the same hash result for a particular message, she computes this as the hash:
32841a6ddba36a71a4e5d86946e3baad0652885713756e01c89d1b6fda81d2ed
She takes Rajnikant's public key, the document hash & the digital signature and uses an algorithm to verify the digital signature.
"pubkey": "03954458fe54151b32a035e6179b18a74cb027b0201404c522a41efdc043f0a138",
"signature": "IK+0M1DdcCnjIzVB4j997WusLlglq3rhBFsqEsuxkOZ7XwseQR2yJQ9/eOp/h/a6lt38iTu4aYceSx1yE1oUYIs=",
"hash": "c14fa6ea73269522b3362c637e9d90de39f58ac7696536019b7a3f2e0741e606"
If the signature is verified, it means that:
From a legal point of view, electronic signature creation & verification achieves the following:
1. Signer authentication: A person’s electronic signature cannot be forged. This means that if an electronic signature can be verified by Rajnikant’s public key, then it must have been created by Rajnikant’s private key. The digital signature verification process thus authenticates the identity of the signer.
2. Message authentication: An electronic signature is based upon the hash value of the actual message. Thus an electronic signature is unique for each message and automatically authenticates the message.
3. Affirmative act: The process of electronic signature creation requires the signer to use his private key (usually by entering a password). This overt act alerts the signer that he is initiating a transaction that may have legal consequences.
The term `electronic record` includes data, record or data generated, image or sound stored, received, or sent in an electronic form. Examples of electronic records include documents in text, pdf, html, doc, ppt, html, mp3, and other file formats.
Some of the important features of an electronic record are preservability, accessibility, readability, comprehensibility in respect of linked information, evidentiary value in terms of authenticity and integrity, and augmentability. Electronic records can be produced, replicated, distributed, and stored at near negligible costs.
The legal concept of an electronic record having parity with a paper-based or written document was introduced by the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce, 1996. This concept has subsequently been included in the laws of many countries.
Major countries have either permissive / minimalist laws or two-tier laws relating to electronic signatures.
In countries with permissive / minimalist laws, simple electronic signatures have the same status as handwritten signatures provided both parties agree to the use of electronic signatures.
In countries with two-tier laws, digital signatures have the same status as handwritten signatures, but electronic signatures are also legal and enforceable.
Setup a server with the following minimum config:
Login as root and run these commands:
You will see something like this:
Email it to team@hyfiblockchain.com
When we confirm, login to the node and run
You should get this response: Node ready.
Now run:
Now you can create addresses, assets, transactions, signatures and more.
Also see the MultiChain JSON-RPC API commands and various Multichain developer tutorials and guides
For future logins, use:
getnewaddress returns a new address whose private key is added to the wallet. This is a custodial address.
The output is an address.
createkeypairs generates one or more public / private key pairs, which are not stored in the wallet or drawn from the node’s key pool, ready for external key management. These are non-custodial addresses.
For each key pair, the address, public key (as embedded in transaction inputs) and private key (used for signatures) is provided.
Electronic Signatures can be generated using custodial and non-custodial addresses.
A message (text or hash) can be electronically signed by a custodial address using signmessage addressOfSigner "message"
The output will be the electronic signature.
An electronic signature can be verified using verifymessage addressOfSigner electronicSignature "message"
The output will be true or false.
A message (text or hash) can be electronically signed by a non-custodial address using signmessage privateKeyOfSigner "message"
The output will be the electronic signature.
An electronic signature can be verified using verifymessage addressOfSigner electronicSignature "message"
The output will be true or false.
