Untraceable Secret Credentials: Trust Establishment with Privacy

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Bussard;Yves Roudier;Refik Molva

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PERCOMW '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

There is generally no a priori trust relationship amongentities interacting in pervasive computing environmentswhich makes it necessary to establish trust from scratch.This task becomes extremely challenging when it is simultaneouslynecessary to protect the privacy of the actors involved.This paper shows how trust can be based on previousinteractions yet remain unlinkable to any previous eventor any specific entity. A solution based on group blind signaturesis proposed that relies on credentials both secret,meaning that they contain an encrypted description of previousinteractions, and untraceable, meaning that they cannotbe recognized when presented to their issuer.