Towards Smart Contract-based Verification of Anonymous Credentials
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Beitragende
Abstract
Smart contracts often need to verify identity-related information of their users. However, such information is typically confidential, and its verification requires access to off-chain resources. Given the isolation and privacy limitations of blockchain technologies, this presents a problem for on-chain verification. In this paper, we show how CL-signature-based anonymous credentials can be verified in smart contracts using the example of Hyperledger Indy, a decentralized credential management platform, and Ethereum, a smart contract-enabled blockchain. Therefore, we first outline how smart contract-based verification can be integrated in the Hyperledger Indy credential management routine and, then, provide a technical evaluation based on a proof-of-concept implementation of CL-signature verification on Ethereum. While our results demonstrate technical feasibility of smart contract-based verification of anonymous credentials, they also reveal technical barriers for its real-world usage.
Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Titel | Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2022 International Workshops - CoDecFin, DeFi, Voting, WTSC, Revised Selected Papers |
Redakteure/-innen | Shin’ichiro Matsuo, Lewis Gudgeon, Daniel Perez Hernandez, Sam Werner, Ariah Klages-Mundt, Thomas Haines, Aleksander Essex, Andrea Bracciali, Massimiliano Sala |
Seiten | 481–498 |
Seitenumfang | 18 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Mai 2022 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Extern publiziert | Ja |
Externe IDs
Scopus | 85172668644 |
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Schlagwörter
- anonymous credentials, blockchain, decentralized apps