Zero-Cerd: A Self-Blindable Anonymous Authentication System Based on Blockchain

While the Internet of things brings convenience to people’s lives, it will also bring people hidden worries about data security. As an important barrier to protect data security, identity authentication is widely used in the Internet of things. However, it is necessary to protect users’ identity privacy while authenticating their identity. Anonymous authentication technology is often used to solve the contradiction between legitimacy and privacy in the authentication process. The existing anonymous authentication scheme has many problems in practical application such as the inability to achieve complete anonymity, the high computational complexity of the algorithm, and the corruption of the central authority. Aiming at the privacy of authentication, we propose Zero-Cerd, a self-blindable anonymous authentication system based on blockchain and dynamic accumulator. The self-blinding properties of the credential enable the users themselves to generate a new validly pseudonymous credential. With the help of zero-knowledge proof technology, users can prove the validity of their credentials without disclosing any information. Security analysis shows that our scheme has achieved the expected security objectives. Compared with the existing schemes, our scheme has the advantages of complete anonymity and high efficiency, and is more suitable for IoT applications with privacy protection requirements.