Key Transparency provides a lookup service for generic records and a public, tamper-proof audit log of all record changes. While being publicly auditable, individual records are only revealed in response to queries for specific IDs.

Key Transparency can be used as a public key discovery service to authenticate users and provides a mechanism to keep the service accountable. It can be used by account owners to reliably see what keys have been associated with their account, and it can be used by senders to see how long an account has been active and stable before trusting it.

• Overview
• Design document
• API

Key Transparency is inspired by CONIKS and Certificate Transparency. It is a work-in-progress with the following milestones under development.

1. Install Go 1.9.
2. go get -u github.com/google/keytransparency/cmd/keytransparency-client
3. Get an OAuth client ID and download the generated JSON file to client_secret.json.

keytransparency-client authorized-keys --help 
keytransparency-client authorized-keys add --generate --type=ecdsa --activate
keytransparency-client post [email protected] app1 --client-secret=client_secret.json --insecure -d 'dGVzdA==' #Base64

keytransparency-client get <email> <app> --insecure --verbose
✓ Commitment verified.
✓ VRF verified.
✓ Sparse tree proof verified.
✓ Signed Map Head signature verified.
CT ✓ STH signature verified.
CT ✓ Consistency proof verified.
CT   New trusted STH: 2016-09-12 15:31:19.547 -0700 PDT
CT ✓ SCT signature verified. Saving SCT for future inclusion proof verification.
✓ Signed Map Head CT inclusion proof verified.
keys:<key:"app1" value:"test" >

keytransparency-client history <email> --insecure
Epoch |Timestamp                    |Profile
4     |Mon Sep 12 22:23:54 UTC 2016 |keys:<key:"app1" value:"test" >

1. OpenSSL
2. Docker
   • Docker Engine 1.13.0+ docker version -f '{{.Server.APIVersion}}'
   • Docker Compose 1.11.0+ docker-compose --version
3. go get -u github.com/google/keytransparency/...
4. go get -u github.com/google/trillian/...
5. ./scripts/prepare_server.sh -f

1. Run Key Transparency

$ docker-compose up -d 
Creating keytransparency_db_1 ...         done
Creating keytransparency_map_server_1 ... done
Creating keytransparency_log_server_1 ... done
Creating keytransparency_log_server_1 ... done
Creating keytransparency_server_1 ...     done
Creating keytransparency_sequencer_1 ...  done
Creating keytransparency_monitor_1 ...    done
Creating keytransparency_init_1 ...       done
Creating keytransparency_prometheus_1 ... done
Creating keytransparency_monitor_1 ...    done

2. Watch it Run

• docker-compose logs --tail=0 --follow
• Proof for app1/[email protected]
• Server configuration info
• Prometheus graphs

Key Transparency and its Trillian backend use a MySQL database, which must be setup in order for the Key Transparency tests to work.