A New Construction for Linkable Secret Handshake

Authors

Yangguang Tian
Yingjiu Li
Robert Deng
Nan Li
Guomin Yang, University of WollongongFollow
Zheng Yang

RIS ID

144137

Publication Details

Tian, Y., Li, Y., Deng, R., Li, N., Yang, G. & Yang, Z. (2020). A New Construction for Linkable Secret Handshake. Computer Journal, 63 (4), 536-548.

Abstract

© 2019 The British Computer Society. All rights reserved. In this paper, we introduce a new construction for linkable secret handshake that allows authenticated users to perform handshake anonymously within allowable times. We define formal security models for the new construction, and prove that it can achieve session key security, anonymity, untraceability and linkable affiliation-hiding. In particular, the proposed construction ensures that (i) anyone can trace the real identities of dishonest users who perform handshakes for more than k times; and (ii) an optimal communication cost between authorized users is achieved by exploiting the proof of knowledges.