BLIND IDENTIFICATION USING BILINEAR PAIRINGS FOR SMART CARDS

A. Saxena et al. first proposed a two-flow blind identification protocol in 2005. But it has a weakness of the active-intruder attack and uses the pairing operation that causes slow implementation in smart cards. In this paper, we give a method of the active-intruder attack on their identification scheme and propose a new zero- knowledge blind identification protocol for Smart cards. Our protocol consists of only two message flows and does not rely on any underlying signature or encryption scheme. The prover using computationally limited devices such as smart cards has no need of computing the bilinear pairings. It needs only for the verifier. Our protocol is secure assuming the hardness of the Discrete-Logarithm Problem in bilinear groups.