Method and device for authentication

A method for authenticating a prover to a verifier, the prover being provided with a proving key paired to a verification key registered with the verifier, wherein the proving key can be obtained by transforming a protected key and a secret (S) using a transformation (E), characterized in that the p...

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Hauptverfasser: Hermans, Jens, Peeters, Roel Johan Corneel
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method for authenticating a prover to a verifier, the prover being provided with a proving key paired to a verification key registered with the verifier, wherein the proving key can be obtained by transforming a protected key and a secret (S) using a transformation (E), characterized in that the prover stores the protected key and does not store the corresponding proving key nor the corresponding verification key in clear, with the exception of storage in transient memory.