Title
Attribute‐based credentials with cryptographic collusion prevention
Abstract
Cryptographic attribute-based credentials (ABCs) allow users to prove their personal attributes remotely and in a privacy-friendly way. While staying anonymous and untraceable, the users are able to prove their attributes, such as age, membership, or nationality, before using a network service. Unfortunately, there are very few practical cryptographic ABC schemes available today. Furthermore, some existing schemes rely on the hardware tamper-resistance of smart cards to avoid collusion attacks. The trust in hardware limits the usage of such schemes on poorly protected cards and on smart phones. In this paper, we present the full cryptographic specification of an ABC scheme, which makes the collusion attacks impossible even on insecure hardware like mobile phones. Furthermore, the scheme provides features, which are difficult to achieve using existing schemes, namely the practical revocation of users, the de-anonymization of malicious users, and the unlinkability of verification sessions. Besides the cryptographic architecture, we also present our practical implementation on a smart phone and embedded platforms. Copyright (C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/sec.1304
SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
privacy,attribute-based credentials,access-control,smart cards,smart phones,anonymity
Network service,Cryptography,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Smart card,Cryptographic primitive,Revocation,Access control,Anonymity,Collusion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
18
1939-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Hajny1125.95
Petr Dzurenda2128.99
Lukas Malina3215.85