Unlinkable and Revocable Secret Handshake

Publication Name

Computer Journal

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new construction for unlinkable secret handshake that allows a group of users to perform handshakes anonymously. We define formal security models for the proposed construction and prove that it can achieve session key security, anonymity and affiliation hiding. In particular, the proposed construction ensures that (i) anonymity against protocol participants (including group authority) is achieved since a hierarchical identity-based signature is used in generating group user's pseudonym-credential pairs and (ii) revocation is achieved using a secret sharing-based revocation mechanism.

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Volume

64

Issue

8

First Page

1303

Last Page

1314

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxaa181