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SD-BLS: Privacy Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation

Cryptography and Security 2024-08-19 v4

Abstract

Ensuring privacy and protection from issuer corruption in digital identity systems is crucial. We propose a method for selective disclosure and privacy-preserving revocation of digital credentials using second-order Elliptic Curves and Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures. We make holders able to present proofs of possession of selected credentials without disclosing them, and we protect their presentations from replay attacks. Revocations may be distributed among multiple revocation issuers using publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) and activated only by configurable consensus, ensuring robust protection against issuer corruption. Our system's unique design enables extremely fast revocation checks, even with large revocation lists, leveraging optimized hash map lookups.

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@article{arxiv.2406.19035,
  title  = {SD-BLS: Privacy Preserving Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials with Unlinkable Threshold Revocation},
  author = {Denis Roio and Rebecca Selvaggini and Gabriele Bellini and Andrea D'Intino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19035},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication by the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (2024) to be held in Copenhagen