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Title: Anonymous authenticated communications

Patent ·
OSTI ID:909711
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Albuquerque, NM
  2. Woodland Hills, UT
  3. Corrales, NM
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A method of performing electronic communications between members of a group wherein the communications are authenticated as being from a member of the group and have not been altered, comprising: generating a plurality of random numbers; distributing in a digital medium the plurality of random numbers to the members of the group; publishing a hash value of contents of the digital medium; distributing to the members of the group public-key-encrypted messages each containing a same token comprising a random number; and encrypting a message with a key generated from the token and the plurality of random numbers.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
7,234,059
Application Number:
10/072,018
OSTI ID:
909711
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Communication-efficient anonymous group identification
  • De Santis, Afredo; Di Crescenzo, Giovanni; Persiano, Giuseppe
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Computer and communications security - CCS '98 https://doi.org/10.1145/288090.288110
conference January 1998
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms journal February 1981
Anonymous mechanisms in group decision support systems communication journal October 1998
Anonymous micropayments authentication (AMA) in mobile data networkds conference November 2004
Anonymous authentication with subset queries (extended abstract) conference January 1999
Anonymous Authentication of Membership in Dynamic Groups book January 1999
Anonymous connections and onion routing journal May 1998

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