Contact emails

sval...@chromium.org, privacy-sand...@chromium.org

Spec

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TNnya6B8pyomDK2F1R9CL3dY10OAmqWlnCxsWyOBDVQ/edit
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TNnya6B8pyomDK2F1R9CL3dY10OAmqWlnCxsWyOBDVQ/edit#>

https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api

Summary

This is a new API for propagating a notion of user authenticity across
sites, without using cross-site persistent identifiers like third party
cookies. Trust Token is built on Privacy Pass
<https://privacypass.github.io/> for anonymous tokens that can't be tracked
between issuance and redemption.

An Origin Trial for Trust Token started in M84 and is scheduled to end in
M94. Due to the shift in the API from a primarily first-party issuance
model to a third-party issuance model, we've gotten feedback from partners
that spinning up the complex infrastructure and models for third-party
issuance is taking longer than anticipated, in order to give issuers more
time to experiment with this model, we'd like to extend the Origin Trial to
M101 (April 2022).

Link to “Intent to Prototype” blink-dev discussion

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/X9sF2uLe9rA/

Previous Intent to Extend:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/-W90wVkS0Ks/m/HyICZtuuBAAJ

Goals for experimentation

For the continuation of the origin trial, we hope to continue to get more
experimental data on the value of these token-derived signals from issuance
schemes that take place in the third-party context, rather than where a
strong first-party signal is available. Additionally, we are continuing to
iterate on the API shape and modes to bring it more in line with the
underlying Privacy Pass work being standardized in the IETF.

Experimental timeline

We'd like to extend the Origin Trial again to run to the end of M101 (April
2022).

Any risks when the experiment finishes?

As this feature is only available via Origin Trials and doesn't affect any
existing state, we don't believe there will be any risks once the
experiment concludes. As we don't maintain backwards compatibility between
different versions of Trust Token (
https://github.com/WICG/trust-token-api/blob/main/ISSUER_PROTOCOL.md#version-history),
as we update it based on ecosystem feedback, we don't expect there to be
ecosystem burn-in as the issuers and redeemers are still required to update
their implementations to continue functioning in the latest version of
Chrome (and the server-side components of the API provided by the component
updater maintains minimal compatibility so that older versions of the API
will cease to function within a version release or so). As an extra measure
of safety, we can also disable the API for a couple weeks to ensure that
the ecosystem is not burning in the availability of the API.

Reason this experiment is being extended

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?oldui=1#!msg/blink-dev/UIvia1WwIhk/DuXLKdF7AgAJ

Due to the complexities of issuance strategies involving purely third-party
based issuance, we've seen that issuers are needing a longer time to spin
up their infrastructure and experiment logic in order to verify the
usefulness of the API. Due to the scope and shape of this API, we'd like to
get data from issuers who are using this API before trying to launch it, to
help understand the efficacy of the API and the parameters that the shipped
version of the API should be using/allowing.

Ongoing technical constraints

None.

Will this feature be supported on all five Blink platforms supported by
Origin Trials (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android)?

Yes.

Link to entry on the feature dashboard <https://www.chromestatus.com/>

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5078049450098688

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