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On Secure and Pseudonymous Client-Relationships with Multiple Servers

Authors: 

Daniel Bleichenbacher, Eran Gabber, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, and Alain Mayer, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Abstract: 

This paper introduces a cryptographic engine, Janus, that assists clients in establishing and maintaining secure and pseudonymous relationships with multiple servers. The setting is such that clients reside on a particular subnet (e.g., corporate intranet, ISP) and the servers reside anywhere on the Internet. The Janus engine allows for each client-server relationship to use either weak or strong authentication on each interaction. At the same time, each interaction preserves privacy by neither revealing a client's true identity (\modulo" the subnet) nor the set of servers with which a particular client interacts. Furthermore, clients do not need any secure long-term memory, enabling scalability and mobility. The interaction model extends to allow servers to send data back to clients via e-mail at a later date. Hence, our results complement the functionality of current network anonymity tools and remailers.

Daniel Bleichenbacher, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

Eran Gabber, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

Phil Gibbons, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

Yossi Matias, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

Alain Mayer, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

BibTeX
@inproceedings {261133,
author = {Daniel Bleichenbacher and Eran Gabber and Phil Gibbons and Yossi Matias and Alain Mayer},
title = {On Secure and Pseudonymous {Client-Relationships} with Multiple Servers},
booktitle = {3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce (EC 98)},
year = {1998},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/3rd-usenix-workshop-electronic-commerce/secure-and-pseudonymous-client-relationships},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug,
}
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Paper: 
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ec98/full_papers/bleichenbacher/bleichenbacher.pdf
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