Fast Digital Identity Revocation (1998)
| Venue: | in 18th Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO’98 |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ed98fastdigital,
author = {Exte Nd Ed and William Aiello and Sachin Lodha and Rafail Ostrovsky},
title = {Fast Digital Identity Revocation},
booktitle = {in 18th Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO’98},
year = {1998},
pages = {137--152},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
) William Aiello 1 Sachin Lodha 2 Rafail Ostrovsky 3 1 Bell Communications Research, email: aiello@bellcore.com 2 Rutgers University Computer Science Department, e-mail: lodha@paul.rutgers.edu. Part of this work was done while this author visited Bellcore, also partially supported by DIMACS. 3 Bell Communications Research, email: rafail@bellcore.com Abstract. The availability of fast and reliable Digital Identities is an essential ingredient for the successful implementation of the public-key infrastructure of the Internet. All digital identity schemes must include a method for revoking someone's digital identity in the case that this identity is stolen (or canceled) before its expiration date (similar to the cancelation of a credit-cards in the case that they are stolen). In 1995, S. Micali proposed an elegant method of identity revocation which requires very little communication between users and verifiers in the system. In this paper, we extend his scheme by reducing the ...
