----- Original Message ----- From: "bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John S. Denker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]