Self-blindable credential: Towards anonymous entity authentication upon resource-constrained devices

• Main Authors: YANG, Yanjiang, DING, Xuhua, LU, Haibing, WENG, Jian, ZHOU, Jianying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1969; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2968/viewcontent/207.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We are witnessing the rapid expansion of smart devices in our daily life. The need for individual privacy protection calls for anonymous entity authentication techniques with affordable efficiency upon the resource-constrained smart devices. Towards this objective, in this paper we propose self-blindable credential, a lightweight anonymous entity authentication primitive.We provide a formulation of the primitive and present two concrete instantiations. The first scheme implements verifier-local revocation and the second scheme enhances the former with forward security. Our analytical performance results show that our schemes outperform relevant existing schemes.