METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING ATTRIBUTES IN A NON-TRACEABLE MANNER AND WITHOUT CONNECTION TO A SERVER

The present invention relates to a method, for a provider entity belonging to a provider group, to authenticate its belonging to an attribute provider group to a verification entity in a non-traceable manner without necessitating to share secret or large constants compromising privacy. Both entities comprise at least one attribute group arborescence, this attribute group arborescence being shared by the provider entity and the verification entity when the provider entity has the attribute. According to the invention, when a verification is triggered, the verification entity calculates a certificate from the attribute group arborescence, said certificate being calculated from the authentication tokens of the groups along the arborescence from the attribute verification group's token to the consumer group's token.