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Main Authors: Ramić, Šeila Bećirović, Prazina, Irfan, Pozderac, Damir, Mulahasanović, Razija Turčinhodžić, Mrdović, Saša
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15447
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author Ramić, Šeila Bećirović
Prazina, Irfan
Pozderac, Damir
Mulahasanović, Razija Turčinhodžić
Mrdović, Saša
author_facet Ramić, Šeila Bećirović
Prazina, Irfan
Pozderac, Damir
Mulahasanović, Razija Turčinhodžić
Mrdović, Saša
contents Digital credentials represent crucial elements of digital identity on the Internet. Credentials should have specific properties that allow them to achieve privacy-preserving capabilities. One of these properties is selective disclosure, which allows users to disclose only the claims or attributes they must. This paper presents a novel approach to selective disclosure BLS-MT-ZKP that combines existing cryptographic primitives: Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures, Merkle hash trees (MT) and zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) method called Bulletproofs. Combining these methods, we achieve selective disclosure of claims while conforming to selective disclosure requirements. New requirements are defined based on the definition of selective disclosure and privacy spectrum. Besides selective disclosure, specific use cases for equating digital credentials with paper credentials are achieved. The proposed approach was compared to the existing solutions, and its security, threat, performance and limitation analysis was done. For validation, a proof-of-concept was implemented, and the execution time was measured to demonstrate the practicality and efficiency of the approach.
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spellingShingle BLS-MT-ZKP: A novel approach to selective disclosure of claims from digital credentials
Ramić, Šeila Bećirović
Prazina, Irfan
Pozderac, Damir
Mulahasanović, Razija Turčinhodžić
Mrdović, Saša
Cryptography and Security
Digital credentials represent crucial elements of digital identity on the Internet. Credentials should have specific properties that allow them to achieve privacy-preserving capabilities. One of these properties is selective disclosure, which allows users to disclose only the claims or attributes they must. This paper presents a novel approach to selective disclosure BLS-MT-ZKP that combines existing cryptographic primitives: Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures, Merkle hash trees (MT) and zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) method called Bulletproofs. Combining these methods, we achieve selective disclosure of claims while conforming to selective disclosure requirements. New requirements are defined based on the definition of selective disclosure and privacy spectrum. Besides selective disclosure, specific use cases for equating digital credentials with paper credentials are achieved. The proposed approach was compared to the existing solutions, and its security, threat, performance and limitation analysis was done. For validation, a proof-of-concept was implemented, and the execution time was measured to demonstrate the practicality and efficiency of the approach.
title BLS-MT-ZKP: A novel approach to selective disclosure of claims from digital credentials
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15447