IACR News item: 20 August 2013
Melissa Chase, Gregory M. Zaverucha
ePrint ReportTo this end, we construct two algebraic MAC schemes in prime order groups, along with efficient protocols for issuing credentials, asserting possession a credential, and proving statements about the attributes.Security of the first scheme is proven in the generic group model, and we show that the second is secure under the decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption, using a dual system-based approach.
Finally, we compare the efficiency of our new systems to two traditional credential systems, U-Prove and Idemix. We show that performance of the new schemes are competitive with U-Prove, and many times faster than Idemix. This brings together the best aspects of these two existing systems: the efficiency of U-Prove combined with the multi-show unlinkability of Idemix.
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