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Attribute-based credentials are cryptographic schemes designed to enhance user privacy. These schemes can be used for constructing anonymous proofs of the ownership of personal attributes. The attributes can represent any information about a user, e.g., age, citizenship or birthplace. The ownership of these attributes can be anonymously proven to verifiers without leaking any other information. The problem of existing credential schemes is that they do not allow the practical revocation of malicious or expired users when slow off-line devices (for example, smart-cards) are used for storing attributes. This prevents existing systems from being used on eIDs (electronic ID cards), employees’ smart-cards or, for example, library access cards. In this paper, we propose a novel cryptographic scheme which allows both expired user revocation and de-anonymization of malicious users on commercially available smart-cards. In addition to the full cryptographic specification of the scheme, we also provide implementation results on .NET V2+ and MultOS smart-card platform.
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Hajny, J., Malina, L. (2013). Unlinkable Attribute-Based Credentials with Practical Revocation on Smart-Cards. In: Mangard, S. (eds) Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications. CARDIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7771. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37288-9_5
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