Threshold attribute-based credentials with redactable signature

• Main Authors: SHI, Rui, FENG, Huamin, YANG, Yang, YUAN, Feng, LI, Yingjiu, PANG, Hwee Hwa, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Blockchain; threshold; traceable; unlinkable redactable signature; attribute-based credentials; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8111; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9114/viewcontent/Threshold_ABC_2023_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Threshold attribute-based credentials are suitable for decentralized systems such as blockchains as such systems generally assume that authenticity, confidentiality, and availability can still be guaranteed in the presence of a threshold number of dishonest or faulty nodes. Coconut (NDSS'19) was the first selective disclosure attribute-based credentials scheme supporting threshold issuance. However, it does not support threshold tracing of user identities and threshold revocation of user credentials, which is desired for internal governance such as identity management, data auditing, and accountability. The communication and computation complexities of Coconut for verifying credentials are linear in the number of each user's attributes and thus costly. Addressing these issues, we propose a novel efficient threshold attribute-based anonymous credential scheme. While retaining all the features of Coconut, our scheme supports threshold tracing of user identities and threshold revocation of user credentials, and it significantly reduces the computational and communication complexities of credential verification. In addition, we prove that our scheme enjoys strong security features, including anonymity, blindness, traceability, and non-frameability.