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Quickstart: SCITT Statements (Preview)

How to push a collection of Statements using SCITT APIs

The SCITT API is currently in preview and subject to change

The Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency and Trust (SCITT) initiative is a set of IETF standards for managing the compliance and auditability of goods and services across end-to-end supply chains. SCITT supports the ongoing verification of goods and services where the authenticity of entities, evidence, policy, and artifacts can be assured and the actions of entities can be guaranteed to be authorized, non-repudiable, immutable, and auditable.

To assure insights to supply chain artifacts are current, the SCITT APIs provide a correlation of statements, allowing verifiers to view a full history of statements. This includes previously registered statements, and newly registered statements providing the most up to date insights.

This quickstart will:

  1. create, or use an existing a key to sign a collection of statements about an artifact
  2. create and register a statement for an artifact
  3. query a collection of statements about the artifact

Prerequisites

DataTrails Sample Code

The Quickstart uses existing samples and scripts to focus on the SCITT APIs.

Clone the DataTrails SCITT Examples repository to copy those files to your environment.

git clone https://github.com/datatrails/datatrails-scitt-samples.git && \
cd datatrails-scitt-samples

Environment Configuration

  1. Create a Python Virtual Environment for the sample scripts and install the dependencies

    python -m venv venv && \
source venv/bin/activate && \
trap deactivate EXIT && \
pip install --upgrade pip && \
pip install -r requirements.txt

    • Note: If you receive errors, delete the venv directory and try again:

      rm -r -f venv/

  2. To ease copying and pasting commands, update any variables to fit your environment

    # your identity
ISSUER="sample.synsation.io"

# signing key to sign the SCITT Statements
SIGNING_KEY="/tmp/my-signing-key.pem"

# File representing the signed statement to be registered
SIGNED_STATEMENT_FILE="/tmp/signed-statement.cbor"

# File representing the transparent statement, which includes the signed statement and the registration receipt
TRANSPARENT_STATEMENT_FILE="/tmp/transparent-statement.cbor"

# Property used to correlate a collection of statements about an artifact
SUBJECT="my-product-id"

# Sub Directory for SCITT scripts
SCRIPTS="datatrails_scitt_samples/scripts/"

# For local script execution, help Python find the modules
export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:$SCRIPTS"

Create a Signing Key

If you already have a signing key, skip ahead to Generating a Payload

For the Quickstart, create a testing key which DataTrails will cryptographically validate upon registration

openssl ecparam -name prime256v1 -genkey -out $SIGNING_KEY

Generate a Payload

Create any payload you wish to register on DataTrails.

cat > /tmp/payload.json <<EOF
{
    "author": "fred",
    "title": "my biography",
    "reviews": "mixed"
}
EOF

Create Metadata

DataTrails Event Attributes can be associated with a SCITT Statement, enabling indexing and retrieval.

Create metadata with a dictionary of key:value pairs.

HASH=$(sha256sum "/tmp/payload.json" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
cat > /tmp/metadata.json <<EOF
{
  "payload_hash": "$HASH",
  "timestamp_declared": "2024-11-01T12:24:42.012345",
  "sample_version": "0.1.1",
  "project": 25,
  "location": "Seattle, WA"
}
EOF

Create a COSE Signed Statement

Create a COSE Signed Statement, hashing the content of the payload.json file. The payload may already be stored in another storage/package manager, which can be referenced with the --location-hint parameter.

python ${SCRIPTS}create_hashed_signed_statement.py \
  --content-type "application/json" \
  --issuer $ISSUER \
  --metadata-file "/tmp/metadata.json" \
  --output-file $SIGNED_STATEMENT_FILE \
  --payload-file /tmp/payload.json \
  --payload-location "https://storage.example/$SUBJECT" \
  --signing-key-file $SIGNING_KEY \
  --subject $SUBJECT

Register the SCITT Signed Statement on DataTrails

  1. Submit the Signed Statement to DataTrails, using the credentials in the DATATRAILS_CLIENT_ID and DATATRAILS_CLIENT_SECRET.

    python ${SCRIPTS}register_signed_statement.py \
  --signed-statement-file $SIGNED_STATEMENT_FILE \
  --output-file $TRANSPARENT_STATEMENT_FILE \
  --log-level INFO

  2. View the Transparent Statement, as a result of registering the Signed Statement

    python datatrails_scitt_samples/dump_cbor.py \
  --input $TRANSPARENT_STATEMENT_FILE

Retrieve Statements for the Artifact

The power of SCITT is the ability to retrieve the history of statements made for a given artifact. By querying the series of statements, consumers can verify who did what and when for a given artifact.

  1. Query DataTrails for the collection of statements

    PARAMS="event_attributes.subject=${SUBJECT}&page_size=3"
curl "https://app.datatrails.ai/archivist/v2/publicassets/-/events?${PARAMS}" \
  | jq

Summary

The quickstart created a collection of statements for a given artifact. Over time, as new information is available, authors can publish new statements which verifiers and consumers can benefit from, making decisions specific to their environment.

There are no limits to the types of additional statements that may be registered, which may include new information related to an AI Model, new vulnerability information, notifications of new versions, end of life (EOL) notifications, or more.

For more information:

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