A novel and efficient unlinkable secret handshakes scheme

  • Hai Huang
  • , Zhenfu Cao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

25 Scopus citations

Abstract

An unlinkable secret handshakes is a two-party authentication protocol which protects the privacy of parties' affiliation and identity to everyone except for the intended parties. However, we find that the latest solution proposed by Jarecki et al. is not very efficient. In particular, each party requires O(log n) exponentiations where n is the number of parties affiliated with a single organization. In this paper, we propose a novel unlinkable secret handshakes protocol. Compared with Jarecki et al's scheme, our proposal is simple intuitionally and requires only constant exponentiations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)363-365
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Communications Letters
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Forward security
  • Secret handshakes
  • Unlinkability

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'A novel and efficient unlinkable secret handshakes scheme'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this