Revocable anonymity

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Abstract

Anonymity services in the EU may be forced by the new EU data retention directive to collect connection data and deanonymise some of their users in case of serious crimes. For this purpose, we propose a new privacy-friendly solution for incorporating revocation in an anonymous communication system. In contrast to other known methods, our scheme does not reveal the identity of a user to any other entity involved in the revocation procedure but the law enforcement agency. Another advantage is, that no user will need to provide more identifying information than his connection (IP) address, that is what he needs to communicate with the system anyway. The proposed scheme is based mainly on threshold group signatures and threshold atomic proxy re-encryption.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmerging Trends in Information and Communication Security - International Conference, ETRICS 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer, Berlin [u. a.]
Pages206-220
Number of pages15
ISBN (print)3540346406, 9783540346401
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3995
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

TitleInternational Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security, ETRICS 2006
Duration6 - 9 June 2006
CityFreiburg
CountryGermany

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0466-562X/work/142246162

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