A Provably Secure Refreshable Partially Anonymous Token and Its Applications

Rie SHIGETOMI
Akira OTSUKA
Jun FURUKAWA
Keith MARTIN
Hideki IMAI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.5    pp.1396-1406
Publication Date: 2006/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.5.1396
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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Keyword: 
anonymous credential,  refreshable tokens,  anonymity,  privacy protection,  

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Summary: 
The first refreshable anonymous token scheme proposed in [1] enables one to provide services in such a way that each of its users is allowed to enjoy only a fixed number of services at the same time. In this paper, we show that the scheme in [1] is insecure and propose a provably secure refreshable partial anonymous token scheme which is a generalization of the previous scheme. The new scheme has an additional ability to control the anonymity level of users. We also propose a formal model and security requirements of the new scheme.

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