IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security
Anonymous Credential with Attributes Certification after Registration
Isamu TERANISHIJun FURUKAWA
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2012 Volume E95.A Issue 1 Pages 125-137

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An anonymous credential system enables individuals to selectively prove their attributes while all other knowledge remains hidden. We considered the applicability of such a system to large scale infrastructure systems and perceived that revocations are still a problem. Then we contrived a scenario to lessen the number of revocations by using more attributes. In this scenario, each individual needs to handle a huge number of attributes, which is not practical with conventional systems. In particular, each individual needs to prove small amounts of attributes among a huge number of attributes and the manager of the system needs to certify a huge number of attributes of individuals periodically. These processes consume extremely large resources. This paper proposes an anonymous credential system in which both a user's proving attributes set, which is included in a huge attribute set, and manager's certifying attributes are very efficient. Conclusion Our proposal enables an anonymous credential system to be deployed as a large scale infrastructure system.

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