Anonymous Public Key Certificates and their Applications (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)

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In this paper a public key certification scheme, which protects privacy of user of the public key certificate, is proposed. In the proposed scheme a certitication authority issues anonymous public key certificates, with which a certificate user having his/her own secret key can make use of public key cryptography and a certificate verifier can confirm the authenticity of the cryptographic communication of the certificate user. The anonymity of their users is preserved against the verifier. In general, user's activities should not be linked each other from the viewpoint of privacy protection. The use of the same certificate results in the linkage of the cryptographic communications. So, ideally, a certificate should be used only once, and such a certificate is called a one-time certificate. In the proposed scheme one-time certificates are realized with low cost of communication and computation for the certificate user. Multiple certificates can be issued without interaction between CA and the user. The additional computation of the user to obtain a new anonymous public key certificate is one modular exponentiation. In addition, only one secret key is required for multiple certificates. Therefore, the proposed scheme is useful for applications which require anonymity, unlinkability, and efficiency.
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1998-01-25