Selective Delegation of Attributes in Mercurial Signature Credentials

ePrint Report: Selective Delegation of Attributes in Mercurial Signature Credentials

Colin Putman, Keith M. Martin

Anonymous credential schemes enable service providers to verify information that a credential holder willingly discloses, without needing any further personal data to corroborate that information, and without allowing the user to be tracked from one interaction to the next. Mercurial signatures are a novel class of anonymous credentials which show good promise as a simple and efficient construction without heavy reliance on zero-knowledge proofs. However, …

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