Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
ChargePoint documentation updated
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
ahzf committed Jun 24, 2024
1 parent 365f529 commit 997bf9c
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Showing 2 changed files with 25 additions and 22 deletions.
17 changes: 0 additions & 17 deletions documentation/ChargePoint/OlderTransparencyFormat.md

This file was deleted.

30 changes: 25 additions & 5 deletions documentation/ChargePoint/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,11 +1,31 @@
# ChargePoint Transparency

The ChargePoint _Charge Transparency Records_ are available in two versions, and they uniquely
separate the transparency data, its digital signature and the public key into distinct files.
The ChargePoint _Charge Transparency Records_ are available in two versions, and they uniquely separate the transparency data, its digital signature and the public key into distinct files.

To make your life easier you can compress all together into e.g. a ZIP file and just drag&drop
it into the transparency software.
The positive aspect of this is, that you could simply use **OpenSSL** to verify those digital signatures. But keep in mind, that the purpose of a transparency software is also to verify the plausibility of the transparency data itself.

```
openssl dgst -sha256 -verify 0024b1000002e300_2.pem -signature 0024b1000002e300_2_119693895_payload/secrrct.sign 0024b1000002e300_2_119693895_payload/secrrct
```

1. [The older transparency format](OlderTransparencyFormat.md)
To make your life a bit easier the Chargy transparency software allows you to compress all files together into e.g. a TAR or ZIP file and just drag&drop it into the application.


## The older ChargePoint transparency format

From the directory `documentation\ChargePoint\Testdata-2020-02` select the files `0024b1000002e300_2_123017065_payload.tar.bz2` containing the transparency records and `0024b1000002e300_2.pem` containing the public key of the EVSE of the associated charging station.

![](Testdata-2020-02/screenshot01.png)
![](Testdata-2020-02/screenshot02.png)


1. When you select **multiple public key files**, e.g. `0024b1000002e300_2.pem` and `0124a500402e1300_2-publicKey.pem` the transparency software will automatically iterate over all public keys and stop as soon as it found a valid signature. Also the file name of the public key file is not important, see `like_0024b1000002e300_2_butWrongFileName.pem`.

2. The transparency file `0024b1000002e300_2_123017065_payload.tar.bz2` is actually a compressed archive having two files: `secrrct` the transparency data and `secrrct.sign` the digital signature over the transparency data ***as it is*** within this file. No normalization *(minification)* of the JSON data is applied before creating or validating the digital signature, so you have to keep an eye on e.g. whitespaces and line breaks that might break the signature in unexpected ways.

3. The transparency records in `0024b1000002e300_2_123017065_payload.tar.bz2` can also be used in combination with `0024b1000002e300_2-publicKey.chargy` which provides the associated public key and a digital signature for it in the Chargy format.

4. The transparency records in `0024b1000002e300_2_123017065_payload.tar.bz2` can also be used in combination with `0024b1000002e300_2-publicKey_minimal.chargy` which provides the associated public key and a digital signature for it a minimal Chargy format.

5. The transparency format used does not include additional CPO information. Nevertheless Chargy supports additional *EVSE Id*, *address* and *geo location* information within the signed part of transparency record. Within `documentation\ChargePoint\Testdata-2020-02extended` you will find a corresponding example.

0 comments on commit 997bf9c

Please sign in to comment.