TY - GEN
T1 - Implementation of a Pseudonym-Based Signature Scheme with Bilinear Pairings on Android
AU - Oliveira, Leonardo
AU - Sucasas, Victor
AU - Mantas, Georgios
AU - Rodriguez, Jonathan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement. This work is supported by the European Structural Investment Funds, through CENTRO 2020 [Project Nr. 017785 (CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-017785)] and EU-H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 SECRET-722424.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Privacy preservation is of paramount importance in the emerging smart city scenario, where numerous and diverse online services will be accessed by users through their mobile or wearable devices. In this scenario, service providers or eavesdroppers can track users’ activities, location, and interactions with other users, which may discourage citizens from accessing smart city services. Pseudonym-based systems have been proposed as an efficient solution to provide identity confidentiality, and more concretely pseudonym-based signature schemes have been suggested as an effective means to authenticate entities and messages privately. In this paper we describe our implementation of a pseudonym-based signature scheme, based on bilinear-pairings. Concretely, our implementation consists of an Android application that enables users to authenticate messages under self-generated pseudonyms, while still enabling anonymity revocation by a trusted third party in case of misbehavior. The paper presents a description of the implementation, performance results, and it also describes the use cases for which it was designed.
AB - Privacy preservation is of paramount importance in the emerging smart city scenario, where numerous and diverse online services will be accessed by users through their mobile or wearable devices. In this scenario, service providers or eavesdroppers can track users’ activities, location, and interactions with other users, which may discourage citizens from accessing smart city services. Pseudonym-based systems have been proposed as an efficient solution to provide identity confidentiality, and more concretely pseudonym-based signature schemes have been suggested as an effective means to authenticate entities and messages privately. In this paper we describe our implementation of a pseudonym-based signature scheme, based on bilinear-pairings. Concretely, our implementation consists of an Android application that enables users to authenticate messages under self-generated pseudonyms, while still enabling anonymity revocation by a trusted third party in case of misbehavior. The paper presents a description of the implementation, performance results, and it also describes the use cases for which it was designed.
KW - Bilinear pairings
KW - Mobile applications
KW - Privacy-preserving
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-76207-4_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-76207-4_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85043326803
SN - 9783319762067
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 75
EP - 87
BT - Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks - 12th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Marques, Paulo
A2 - Radwan, Ayman
A2 - Mumtaz, Shahid
A2 - Rodriguez, Jonathan
A2 - Gundlach, Michael
A2 - Noguet, Dominique
PB - Springer
T2 - 12th EAI International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2017
Y2 - 20 September 2017 through 21 September 2017
ER -
