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Title:
Flexible Framework for Secret Handshakes (Multi-Party Anonymous and Un-observable Authentication)
Authors: Gene Tsudik, Shouhuai Xu
Abstract:In the society increasingly concerned with the erosion of privacy,
privacy-preserving techniques are becoming very important.
This motivates research in cryptographic techniques offering
built-in privacy.
A secret handshake is a protocol whereby participants establish
a secure, anonymous and unobservable communication channel only
if they are members of the same group. This type of ``private"
authentication is a valuable tool in the arsenal of privacy-preserving
cryptographic techniques. Prior research focused on 2-party secret
handshakes with one-time credentials.
This paper breaks new ground on two accounts: (1) it shows how
to obtain secure and efficient secret handshakes with reusable
credentials, and (2) it represents the first treatment of group
(or {\em multi-party}) secret handshakes, thus providing a
natural extension to the secret handshake technology. An
interesting new issue encountered in multi-party secret handshakes
is the need to ensure that all parties are indeed distinct.
(This is a real challenge since the parties cannot expose their
identities.) We tackle this and other challenging issues in
constructing GCD – a flexible framework for secret handshakes.
The proposed framework lends itself to many practical
instantiations and offers several novel and appealing features
such as self-distinction and strong anonymity with reusable
credentials. In addition to describing the motivation and
step-by-step construction of the framework, this paper provides
a thorough security analysis and illustrates two concrete
framework instantiations.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/034
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