Affiliation:
1. College of Computer Science & Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
Abstract
Most of the existing identity management is the centralized architecture that has to validate, certify, and manage identity in a centralized approach by trusted authorities. Decentralized identity is causing widespread public concern because it enables to give back control of identity to clients, and the client then has the ability to control when, where, and with whom they share their credentials. A decentralized solution atop on blockchain will bypass the centralized architecture and address the single point of the failure problem. To our knowledge, blockchain is an inherited pseudonym but it cannot achieve anonymity and auditability directly. In this paper, we approach the problem of decentralized identity management starting from the designated-verifier anonymous credential (DVAC in short). DVAC would assist to build a new practical decentralized identity management with anonymity and auditability. Apart from the advantages of the conventional anonymous credential, the main advantage of the proposed DVAC atop blockchain is that the issued cryptographic token will be divided into shares at the issue phase and will be combined at the showing credential phase. Further, the smooth projective hash function (
in short) is regarded as a designated-verifier zero-knowledge proof system. Thus, we introduce the
to achieve the designated verifiability without compromising the privacy of clients. Finally, the security of the proposed DVAC is proved along with theoretical and experimental evaluations.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Computer Science Applications
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