OpenAttestation (Verify)

Using the OpenAttestation (Verify) repository as the codebase for the npm module, you can verify wrapped documents programmatically. This is useful if you are building your own API or web components. The following are common use cases where you will need this module:

• Verifying a document
• Building a custom verifier
• Adding custom validation

This module does not provide the following functionalities:

• Programmatic wrapping of OA documents (refer to OpenAttestation)
• Encryption or decryption of OA documents (refer to OpenAttestation (Encryption))
• Programmatic issuance or revocation of any document on the Ethereum blockchain

Verification flow

In brief, the verification flow runs three checks on the document:

1. The document integrity check
2. The issuance status check
3. The issuance identity check

Only when it passes all three checks, will it count as a valid OA document.

Ethereum

The diagram below shows the verification flow on OA documents issued using the Ethereum method:

DID

The diagram below shows the verification flow on OA documents issued using the DID method:

Installation

To install OpenAttestation (Verify) on your machine, run the command below:

npm i @govtechsg/oa-verify

Usage

Verifying a document

A verification happens on a wrapped document, which performs the following checks:

• Has the document been tampered with?
• Is the issuance state of the document valid?
• Is the document issuer identity valid? (See identity proof)

The verification requires a wrapped document created using OpenAttestation. The following shows an example of a wrapped document, which is valid and has been issued on the Sepolia network.

{
  "version": "https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json",
  "data": {
    "billFrom": {},
    "billTo": { "company": {} },
    "$template": {
      "type": "f76f4d39-8d23-455b-96ba-5889e0233641:string:EMBEDDED_RENDERER",
      "name": "575f0624-7f43-484c-9285-edd1ae96ebc6:string:INVOICE",
      "url": "fb61f072-64e9-4c2f-83bf-ae68fd911414:string:https://generic-templates.tradetrust.io"
    },
    "issuers": [
      {
        "name": "ed121e9e-8f70-4a01-a422-4509d837c13f:string:Demo Issuer",
        "documentStore": "08948d61-9392-459f-b476-e3c51961f04b:string:0x49b2969bF0E4aa822023a9eA2293b24E4518C1DD",
        "identityProof": {
          "type": "61c13b84-181a-43aa-85f5-dfe89e4b6963:string:DNS-TXT",
          "location": "d7ba5e33-cf5f-4fcc-a4b7-3e6e17324966:string:demo-tradetrust.openattestation.com"
        },
        "revocation": {
          "type": "23d47c6b-4384-4c31-90ca-8284602f6b3e:string:NONE"
        }
      }
    ],
    "links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "121c55c0-864d-4e54-a1f0-86bec4b9a050:string:https://action.openattestation.com?q=%7B%22type%22%3A%22DOCUMENT%22%2C%22payload%22%3A%7B%22uri%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Ftradetrust-functions.netlify.app%2F.netlify%2Ffunctions%2Fstorage%2Faea9cb1a-816a-4fd7-b3a9-84924dc9a9e9%22%2C%22key%22%3A%22d80b453e53bb26d3b36efe65f18f0482f52d97cffad6f6c9c195d10e165b9a83%22%2C%22permittedActions%22%3A%5B%22STORE%22%5D%2C%22redirect%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fdev.tradetrust.io%2F%22%2C%22chainId%22%3A%225%22%7D%7D"
      }
    },
    "network": {
      "chain": "05eb1707-5426-41d8-8fde-bc48ff0f2182:string:ETH",
      "chainId": "ae505425-2df7-4597-87d2-037418d7bcbf:string:5"
    }
  },
  "signature": {
    "type": "SHA3MerkleProof",
    "targetHash": "f292056ed5e5535400cec63b78a84ec384d2d77117e1606a17644e7b97a03cac",
    "proof": [],
    "merkleRoot": "f292056ed5e5535400cec63b78a84ec384d2d77117e1606a17644e7b97a03cac"
  }
}

To perform the verification checks on the document, use the following code:

// index.ts
import { isValid, verify } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import * as document from "./document.json";

const fragments = await verify(document as any);

console.log(isValid(fragments)); // output true

Custom verification

By default, the provided verify method performs multiple checks on a document.

• The type DOCUMENT_STATUS runs these verifiers:

  • OpenAttestationEthereumDocumentStoreStatus
  • OpenAttestationEthereumTokenRegistryStatus
  • DidSignedDocumentStatus

• The type DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY runs this verifier:

  • OpenAttestationHash

• The type ISSUER_IDENTITY runs these verifiers:

  • OpenAttestationDnsTxt
  • DnsDidProof

All those verifiers are exported as openAttestationVerifiers

You can build your own verification method based on the default exported verifiers:

// creating your own verification method using default exported verifiers
import { verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";

const verify1 = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, { network: "sepolia" }); // this verification is equivalent to the one exported by the library

const verify2 = verificationBuilder([openAttestationVerifiers[0], openAttestationVerifiers[1]], {
  network: "sepolia",
}); // this verification only runs 2 verifiers

You can also build your own verification method based on the custom verifiers:

// creating your own verification using custom verifier
import { verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers, Verifier } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
const customVerifier: Verifier<any> = {
  skip: () => {
    // returns a SkippedVerificationFragment if the verifier should be skipped or throws an error if it should always run
  },
  test: () => {
    // returns true or false
  },
  verify: async (document) => {
    // performs checks and returns a fragment
  },
};

// creates your own verify function with all verifiers and your custom one
const verify = verificationBuilder([...openAttestationVerifiers, customVerifier], { network: "sepolia" });

Refer to the Extending custom verification section to find out more on how to create your own custom verifier.

Custom validation

Fragments will be produced after verifying a document. Each fragment will determine if the individual type mentioned here is valid or not, and will collectively prove the validity of the document.

The isValid function will execute over fragments and determine if the fragments produced a valid result. By default, the function will return true if a document fulfils all the following conditions:

• The document has NOT been tampered.
• AND The document has been issued.
• AND The document has NOT been revoked.
• AND The issuer identity is valid.

In the function, a list of types also checks for as a second parameter.

// index.ts
import { isValid, openAttestationVerifiers, verificationBuilder } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import * as document from "./document.json";

const verify = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, {
  network: "mainnet",
});

const fragments = await verify(document as any);

console.log(isValid(fragments, ["DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY"])); // output true
console.log(isValid(fragments, ["DOCUMENT_STATUS"])); // output false
console.log(isValid(fragments, ["ISSUER_IDENTITY"])); // output false
console.log(isValid(fragments)); // output false

The following explains what the functions return with reasons:

• isValid(fragments, ["DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY"]) returns true because the integrity of the document is not dependent on the network where it has been published.
• isValid(fragments, ["DOCUMENT_STATUS"]) returns false because the document has not been published on the Ethereum main network.
• isValid(fragments, ["ISSUER_IDENTITY"]) returns false because there is no DNS TXT record associated with the Ethereum main network's document store.
• isValid(fragments) returns false because at least one of the above returns false.

Listening to an individual verification method

The verify function provides an option that listens to individual verification methods. It can be useful if you want, for instance, to provide individual loaders on your UI.

The following is a code example with that option:

// index.ts
import { isValid, openAttestationVerifiers, verificationBuilder } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import * as document from "./document.json";

const verify = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, {
  network: "sepolia",
});

const promisesCallback = (verificationMethods: any) => {
  for (const verificationMethod of verificationMethods) {
    verificationMethod.then((fragment: any) => {
      console.log(`${fragment.name} has been resolved with status ${fragment.status}`);
    });
  }
};

const fragments = await verify(document as any, promisesCallBack);

console.log(isValid(fragments)); // output true

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Advanced usage

Extending custom verification

Extending from the Custom verification section, you will learn how to write custom verification methods and how to distribute your own verifier.

Building a custom verification method

You will write a verification method with the following rules:

1. It must run only on documents with their version equal to https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json

2. It must return a valid fragment, only if the document data hold a name property with the value Certificate of Completion

Document version

This is where skip and test methods are needed. You will use the test method to return when the verification method was running and the skip method to explain why it wasn't:

// index.ts
import { verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers, Verifier, isValid } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import { getData } from "@govtechsg/open-attestation";
import * as document from "./document.json";

const customVerifier: Verifier<any> = {
  skip: async () => {
    return {
      status: "SKIPPED",
      type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
      name: "CustomVerifier",
      reason: {
        code: 0,
        codeString: "SKIPPED",
        message: `Document doesn't have version equal to 'https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json'`,
      },
    };
  },
  test: () => document.version === "https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json",
};

Note: Use the DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY type to check the document content.

The name property

Once you have decided when the verification method will run, you need to write the logic of the verifier in the verify method. You will use the getData utility to access the document data and return the appropriate fragment depending on the content:

// index.ts
import { verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers, Verifier, isValid } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import { getData } from "@govtechsg/open-attestation";
import * as document from "./document.json";

const customVerifier: Verifier<any> = {
  skip: async () => {
    /* content has been defined in the section above */
  },
  test: () => /* content has been defined in the section above */,
  verify: async (document: any) => {
    const documentData = getData(document);
    if (documentData.name !== "Certificate of Completion") {
      return {
        type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
        name: "CustomVerifier",
        data: documentData.name,
        reason: {
          code: 1,
          codeString: "INVALID_NAME",
          message: `Document name is ${documentData.name}`,
        },
        status: "INVALID",
      };
    }
    return {
      type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
      name: "CustomVerifier",
      data: documentData.name,
      status: "VALID",
    };
  },
};

Building a custom verify method

The verify function is built to run a list of verification methods. Each verifier will produce a fragment that determines if the document is valid. OpenAttestation has its own set of verification methods in openAttestationVerifiers.

Using the verificationBuilder function, you can create custom verification methods and reuse the default method exported from the library.

Extending from the Custom verification section, you will build a new verifier using the custom verification method below:

// index.ts
import { verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers, Verifier, isValid } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
import { getData } from "@govtechsg/open-attestation";
import document from "./document.json";

// based on the test condition specified below, your custom verifier will only check documentData.name if document.version is equal to https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json
const customVerifier: Verifier<any> = {
  skip: async () => {
    return {
      status: "SKIPPED",
      type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
      name: "CustomVerifier",
      reason: {
        code: 0,
        codeString: "SKIPPED",
        message: `Document doesn't have version equal to 'https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json'`,
      },
    };
  },
  test: () => document.version === "https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json",
  verify: async (document: any) => {
    const documentData = getData(document);
    if (documentData.name !== "Certificate of Completion") {
      return {
        type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
        name: "CustomVerifier",
        data: documentData.name,
        reason: {
          code: 1,
          codeString: "INVALID_NAME",
          message: `Document name is ${documentData.name}`,
        },
        status: "INVALID",
      };
    }
    return {
      type: "DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY",
      name: "CustomVerifier",
      data: documentData.name,
      status: "VALID",
    };
  },
};

// create your own verify function with all verifiers and your custom one
const verify = verificationBuilder([...openAttestationVerifiers, customVerifier], { network: "sepolia" });

const fragments = await verify(document);

console.log(isValid(fragments)); // return false
console.log(fragments.find((fragment: any) => fragment.name === "CustomVerifier")); // display the details on our specific verifier

The document you created is not valid according to your own verifier, because the name property does not exist. Test again with the following document:

{
  "version": "https://schema.openattestation.com/2.0/schema.json",
  "data": {
    "name": "66e35a92-9e97-4ffc-b94e-769773dd7535:string:Certificate of Completion",
    "issuers": [
      {
        "documentStore": "375a13f9-ca3d-4a1f-a0c9-1fa92e43a3ec:string:0x8Fc57204c35fb9317D91285eF52D6b892EC08cD3",
        "name": "448c7f62-3a93-4792-a157-fabcbf15b91a:string:University of Blockchain",
        "identityProof": {
          "type": "dcfc17e0-a178-4bb8-b0fb-6a2cfddb8f2f:string:DNS-TXT",
          "location": "e3f54dbf-bb51-41bb-9511-e01a5c07ea86:string:example.openattestation.com"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "privacy": { "obfuscatedData": [] },
  "signature": {
    "type": "SHA3MerkleProof",
    "targetHash": "975887a864e11fbe27e90f4759c44db90193abc237dede81cd3cd7ca45c46522",
    "proof": [],
    "merkleRoot": "975887a864e11fbe27e90f4759c44db90193abc237dede81cd3cd7ca45c46522"
  }
}

Environment variables

• PROVIDER_API_KEY: You can provide your own PROVIDER API key.

• PROVIDER_ENDPOINT_URL: You can provide your preferred JSON-RPC HTTP API URL.

• PROVIDER_NETWORK: You can specify the network to use, i.e. "homestead", "mainnet", or "sepolia".

• PROVIDER_ENDPOINT_TYPE: You can specify the provider to use, i.e. "infura", "alchemy", or "jsonrpc".

  • Supported providers include:
    • Infura
    • EtherScan
    • Alchemy
    • JSON-RPC

Switching network

You may build the verifier to check against a custom network with either way:

1. Providing your own Web3 provider

2. Specifying the network name

   In this way, the provider will be using the default one.

Provider

The following code example shows how you can specify a custom provider:

const verify = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, { provider: customProvider });

Network

The following code example shows how you can specify the network:

const verify = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, { network: "sepolia" });

Specifying the resolver

Using the exposed createResolver method, you can easily create custom resolvers to resolve DIDs:

import { createResolver, verificationBuilder, openAttestationVerifiers } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";

const resolver = createResolver({
  networks: [{ name: "my-network", rpcUrl: "https://my-private-chain/besu", registry: "0xaE5a9b9..." }],
});

const verify = verificationBuilder(openAttestationVerifiers, { resolver });

At the moment, oa-verify supports two DID resolvers:

• web-did-resolver
• ethr-did-resolver

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Provider

You can generate a provider using the provider generator, which supports these providers:

• INFURA
• ALCHEMY
• ETHERSCAN
• JsonRPC

It requires a set of options:

• network: Specified as a string for a common network name, i.e. "homestead", "mainnet", or "sepolia"
• provider: Specified as a string, i.e. "infura", "alchemy", or "jsonrpc"
• url: Specified as a string, which is being used to connect to a JSON-RPC HTTP API
• apiKey: Specified as a string to be used together with the provider. If no value is provided, a default shared API key will be used, which may result in reduced performance and throttled requests.

Example

The following shows a basic use case of provider:

import { utils } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
const provider = utils.generateProvider();
// This will generate an infura provider using the default values.

Alternate method 1

This method uses the environment variables:

// environment file
PROVIDER_NETWORK = "sepolia";
PROVIDER_ENDPOINT_TYPE = "infura";
PROVIDER_ENDPOINT_URL = "http://jsonrpc.com";
PROVIDER_API_KEY = "ajdh1j23";

// provider file
import { utils } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
const provider = utils.generateProvider();
// This will use the environment variables declared in the files automatically.

Alternate method 2

This method passes in the values as parameters:

import { utils } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
const providerOptions = {
  network: "sepolia",
  providerType: "infura",
  apiKey: "abdfddsfe23232",
};
const provider = utils.generateProvider(providerOptions);
// This will generate a provider based on the options provided.
// Note: Using this declaration will override all environment variables and default values.

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Utils and types

Overview

Various utilities and types are available to assert the correctness of fragments. Each verification method exports types for the fragment and the data associated with the fragment.

• Fragment types are available in four flavors: VALID, INVALID, SKIPPED, and ERROR.
• VALID and INVALID fragment data are available in two flavors most of the time, one for each version of OpenAttestation (V2 or V3).

This library provides types and utilities to:

• Get a specific fragment from all fragments returned by the verify method.
• Narrow down to a specific type of fragment.
• Narrow down to specific data from the fragment.

Example

The following code example shows the usage:

import { utils } from "@govtechsg/oa-verify";
const fragments = verify(documentValidWithCertificateStore, { network: "sepolia" });
// return the correct fragment, correctly typed
const fragment = utils.getOpenAttestationEthereumTokenRegistryStatusFragment(fragments);

if (utils.isValidFragment(fragment)) {
  // guard to narrow to the valid fragment type
  const { data } = fragment;
  if (ValidTokenRegistryDataV2.guard(data)) {
    // data is correctly typed here
  }
}

Note: In the example above, it may be unnecessary to use utils.isValidFragment, as it's possible to use ValidTokenRegistryDataV2.guard directly over the data.

List of utilities

• getOpenAttestationHashFragment
• getOpenAttestationDidSignedDocumentStatusFragment
• getOpenAttestationEthereumDocumentStoreStatusFragment
• getOpenAttestationEthereumTokenRegistryStatusFragment
• getOpenAttestationDidIdentityProofFragment
• getOpenAttestationDnsDidIdentityProofFragment
• getOpenAttestationDnsTxtIdentityProofFragment
• getDocumentIntegrityFragments
• getDocumentStatusFragments
• getIssuerIdentityFragments
• isValidFragment: Type guard to filter only the VALID fragment type
• isInvalidFragment: Type guard to filter only the INVALID fragment type
• isErrorFragment: Type guard to filter only the ERROR fragment type
• isSkippedFragment: Type guard to filter only the SKIPPED fragment type

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Verification method

Name	Type	Description	Present in default verifier?
OpenAttestationHash	DOCUMENT_INTEGRITY	Verify that merkle root and target hash matches the certificate	Yes
OpenAttestationDidSignedDocumentStatus	DOCUMENT_STATUS	Verify the validity of the signature of a DID signed certificate	Yes
OpenAttestationEthereumDocumentStoreStatus	DOCUMENT_STATUS	Verify the certificate has been issued to the document store and not revoked	Yes
OpenAttestationEthereumTokenRegistryStatus	DOCUMENT_STATUS	Verify the certificate has been issued to the token registry and not revoked	Yes
OpenAttestationDidIdentityProof	ISSUER_IDENTITY	Verify identity of DID (similar to OpenAttestationDidSignedDocumentStatus)	No
OpenAttestationDnsDidIdentityProof	ISSUER_IDENTITY	Verify identify of DID certificate using DNS-TXT	Yes
OpenAttestationDnsTxtIdentityProof	ISSUER_IDENTITY	Verify identify of document store certificate using DNS-TXT	Yes

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Development

To run tests, use the following command:

npm run test

To generate test documents (for V3), use the script at scripts/generate.v3.ts and run the following command:

npm run generate:v3

License

OpenAttestation (Verify) is under the Apache license, version 2.0.

Additional information

• For more information on the verification SDK implementation, follow the Verifier ADR.
• If you find a bug, have a question, or want to share an idea, reach us at our Github repository.