An anonymous credential system and a privacy-aware PKI

  • Authors:
  • Pino Persiano;Ivan Visconti

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACISP'03 Proceedings of the 8th Australasian conference on Information security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we present a non-transferable anonymous credential system that is based on the concept of a chameleon certificate. A chameleon certificate is a special certificate that enjoys two interesting properties. Firstly, the owner can choose which attributes of the certificate to disclose. Moreover, a chameleon certificate is multi-show in the sense that several uses of the same chameleon certificate by the same user cannot be linked together. We adopt the framework of Brands [2] and our construction improves the results of Camenisch et al. [5] and Verheul [16] since it allows the owner of a certificate to prove general statements on the attributes encoded in the certificate and our certificates enjoy the multi-show property.