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Efficient and Revocable Anonymous Account Guarantee System Based on Blockchain

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The fast expansion of information technology and public concern for personal privacy and security have raised expectations for the authentication process. Although existing anonymous authentication schemes can achieve anonymous authentication and accountability, they all require users to apply for certificates from the authorization authority, resulting in a significant certificate storage overhead for the authority. Additionally, they have not implemented certificate revocation for anonymous users, which allows malicious users to potentially engage in malicious behavior. Therefore, this paper proposes an efficient and revocable anonymous account guarantee system based on blockchain (ERAAS). The system implements a guarantor mechanism where anonymous users can authenticate their identities through the guarantees provided by guarantors without the need to apply for certificates, reducing the storage overhead of certificates. Furthermore, the system utilizes cryptographic accumulators to enable fast revocation of accounts, preventing malicious users from engaging in further malicious behavior. Moreover, in this system, the certificate authority (CA) can enhance the system’s ability to handle concurrent requests by allocating group keys to the registration authority (RA), authorizing them to register guarantors and sign guarantees. Security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme enjoys anonymity, traceability, and revocability and can resist forgery attacks. The experimental comparison demonstrates its practicality.

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This article is supported in part by the National Key R &D Program of China under project 2020YFB1006003, the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation under grant 2023GXNSFAA026236, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under projects 62162017, 62172119 and 61962012, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LZ23F020012, the Guangdong Key R &D Program under project 2020B0101090002, and the special fund of the High-level Innovation Team and Outstanding Scholar Program for universities of Guangxi.

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    Weiyou Liang, Yong Ding, Hai Liang & Changsong Yang

  2. Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou, China

    Yujue Wang

  3. School of Mathematics and Computing Science, GuilinUniversity of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China

    Huiyong Wang

  4. Institute of Cyberspace Technology, HKCT Institute for Higher Education, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Liang, W., Wang, Y., Ding, Y., Liang, H., Yang, C., Wang, H. (2024). Efficient and Revocable Anonymous Account Guarantee System Based on Blockchain. In: Gao, H., Wang, X., Voros, N. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 561. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54521-4_10

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