Paper 2024/711 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2024/711 ↗
Non-Transferable Anonymous Tokens by Secret Binding
Abstract
Non-transferability (NT) is a security notion which ensures that credentials are only used by their intended owners. Despite its importance, it has not been formally treated in the context of anonymous tokens (AT) which are lightweight anonymous credentials. In this work, we consider a client who "buys" access tokens which are forbidden to be transferred although anonymously redeemed. We extensively study the trade-offs between privacy (obtained through anonymity) and security in AT through the notion of non-transferability. We formalise new security notions, design a suite of protocols with various flavors of NT, prove their security, and implement the protocols to assess their efficiency. Finally, we study the existing anonymous credentials which offer NT, and show that they cannot automatically be used as AT without security and complexity implications.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2024-05-10: last updated
- 2024-05-08: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2024/711
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/711,
author = {F. Betül Durak and Laurane Marco and Abdullah Talayhan and Serge Vaudenay},
title = {Non-Transferable Anonymous Tokens by Secret Binding},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/711},
year = {2024},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/711}
}