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Re: anonymity +- credentials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Mon Oct 6 11:43:07 2003
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From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
To: "bear" <bear@sonic.net>
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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:20:52 -0400
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From: "bear" <bear@sonic.net>
To: "John S. Denker" <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>; <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: anonymity +- credentials
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, John S. Denker wrote:
>
> >We need a practical system for anonymous/pseudonymous
> >credentials. Can somebody tell us, what's the state of
> >the art? What's currently deployed? What's on the
> >drawing boards?
>
> The state of the art, AFAIK, is Chaum's credential system.
The state of the art is Brands' credentials.
A technical overview of digital credentials by Stefan Brands:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/brands02technical.html
A white paper from Zeroknowledge systems during the time
Stefan visited ZKS:
http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/crypto-research/anon/www.freedom.net/products/whitepapers/credsnew.pdf
Description of example protocols that use this stuff in practice,
which I wrote with Ariel Glenn, Ian Goldberg and Frédéric
Légaré during the time we implemented the protocols at
ZKS :
http://crypto.cs.mcgill.ca/~stiglic/Papers/brands.pdf
--Anton
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