Use flexible privacy groups
Use the web3js-quorum
library to create and update membership of flexible privacy groups.
Because group membership for flexible privacy groups is stored in a smart contract, flexible privacy groups are also known as onchain privacy groups.
Flexible privacy groups are an early access feature. Don't use in production networks.
The flexible privacy group interfaces may change between releases. There might not be an upgrade path from flexible privacy groups created using v1.5 or earlier to enable use of flexible privacy group functionality in future versions.
We don't recommend creating flexible privacy groups in a chain with existing offchain privacy groups.
Enable flexible privacy groups
Use the --privacy-flexible-groups-enabled
command line option to enable flexible privacy groups. When flexible privacy groups are enabled, the priv_createPrivacyGroup
, priv_deletePrivacyGroup
, and priv_findPrivacyGroup
methods for offchain privacy groups are disabled.
Simple flexible privacy group example
To create and find a flexible privacy group using the web3js-quorum
library:
Update the
example/keys.js
file to match your network configuration.Run:
cd example/onchainPrivacy
node simpleExample.jsThis script creates the flexible privacy group with two members.
findPrivacyGroup
finds and displays the created privacy group.
The Tessera logs for Tessera 1 and Tessera 2 display PrivacyGroupNotFound
errors. This is expected behavior because private transactions check offchain and onchain to find the privacy group for a private transaction.
Add and remove members
To add and remove members from a flexible privacy group, use the addTo
and removeFrom
methods in the web3js-quorum
library client library.
When adding a member, Besu pushes all existing group transactions to the new member and processes them. If there are a large number of existing transactions, adding the member may take some time.