Universally Composable Auditable Surveillance

ePrint Report: Universally Composable Auditable Surveillance

Valerie Fetzer, Michael Klooß, Jörn Müller-Quade, Markus Raiber, Andy Rupp

User privacy is becoming increasingly important in our digital society. Yet, many applications face legal requirements or regulations that prohibit unconditional anonymity guarantees, e.g., in electronic payments where surveillance is mandated to investigate suspected crimes.


As a result, many systems have no effective privacy protections at all, or have backdoors, e.g., stored at the operator side of the system, that can be used by …

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