A First Appraisal of Cryptographic Mechanisms for the Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials

Andrea Flamini, Silvio Ranise, Silvio Ranise, Giada Sciarretta, Mario Scuro, Amir Sharif, Alessandro Tomasi

2023

Abstract

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to prove claims about the holder of the credential itself. One way to preserve privacy during presentation consists in selectively disclosing the attributes in a credential. In this paper we present the most widespread cryptographic mechanisms used to enable selective disclosure of attributes, describing their structure and comparing them in terms of performance, size of the associated verifiable presentations, and the ability to produce predicate proofs and unlinkable presentations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Flamini A., Ranise S., Sciarretta G., Scuro M., Sharif A. and Tomasi A. (2023). A First Appraisal of Cryptographic Mechanisms for the Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-666-8, SciTePress, pages 123-134. DOI: 10.5220/0012084000003555

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt23,
author={Andrea Flamini and Silvio Ranise and Giada Sciarretta and Mario Scuro and Amir Sharif and Alessandro Tomasi},
title={A First Appraisal of Cryptographic Mechanisms for the Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT},
year={2023},
pages={123-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012084000003555},
isbn={978-989-758-666-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT
TI - A First Appraisal of Cryptographic Mechanisms for the Selective Disclosure of Verifiable Credentials
SN - 978-989-758-666-8
AU - Flamini A.
AU - Ranise S.
AU - Sciarretta G.
AU - Scuro M.
AU - Sharif A.
AU - Tomasi A.
PY - 2023
SP - 123
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0012084000003555
PB - SciTePress