Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of access to a service consisting in i) identifying and registering a client (C), ii) authenticating the client to an anonymous certification authority, iii) authenticating the client by producing an anonymous signature and opening and maintaining an anonymous authentication session with a server (Se), and iv) selectively allowing contact between the server (Se) and the anonymous certification authority (ACA) to revoke the anonymity of the client (C) using the signature provided in step iii). The invention also relates to a system for opening and maintaining an authentication session guaranteeing non-repudiation.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a list signature method comprising: an organization phase whereby reliable authority defines parameters for implementing an anonymous electronic signature; a phase which consists in registering persons on a list of authorized members to generate a list signature, during which each person calculates a private key, and the reliable authority delivers to each person a certificate for membership of the list; a phase which consists in defining a serial number; a phase wherein a member of the list generates by means of certificate a signature containing an element common to all the signatures issued by one single member with one single serial number; a phase which consists in verifying whether the signature has been generated by a member of the list and whether the serial number has been used to generate the signature.
Abstract:
A cryptographic method and a chip card which is used to carry out the method. Before any calculation is performed by a computing means of the chip card, the chip card reads (2) an integral list, in a storage means of a second entity, of identifiers of first proprietary entities of a chip card. Such list is linked to each status assigned to each of the first entities by the second entity. Subsequently, the chip card compares (3) the identifier stored in a storage means of the chip card with the contents of the list, in order to authorize (5) or prohibit (4) any calculation by the computing means depending on the result of the comparison.