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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography for Wearables
Casanova-Marqués, Raúl ; Pendo,, Cristiano Gonçalves (referee) ; PhD, Lukasz Michal Chmielewski, (referee) ; Hajný, Jan (advisor)
The increasing concern surrounding privacy and the safeguarding of digital identities has emphasized the pressing necessity of establishing secure and confidential communication channels. This concern has led to the development of cryptographic mechanisms aimed at facilitating impervious information exchange. Nevertheless, traditional cryptographic approaches are proving insufficient in dynamic and resource-constrained environments, such as wearable devices. As a result, attribute-based credential schemes have emerged as a promising solution, offering fine-grained access control to digital services based on user-specific attributes. This doctoral thesis examines the efficacy and scalability of attribute-based anonymous credential schemes in ensuring the authenticity and security of users within dynamic architectures of wearable devices. It also explores enhancements to these schemes, with a primary focus on incorporating user revocation while maintaining privacy. Additionally, the thesis presents devised mechanisms to enable attribute-based authentication protocols on smart cards with limited support for elliptic curve cryptography. It addresses specific challenges associated with the usability of smart cards. Moreover, the thesis investigates the integration of anonymous authentication schemes in collaborative indoor positioning systems, aiming to provide privacy and security. Lastly, it explores the implementation of attribute-based authentication schemes in resource-constrained environments, with an emphasis on Internet of Things devices, and evaluates their feasibility within the dynamic architectures of wearable devices. The first contribution of this thesis introduces a purposefully designed protocol for anonymous authentication on smart cards. This protocol combines attribute-based credentials and user revocation while ensuring computational efficiency. To facilitate effective implementation and evaluation, the thesis employs smart cards equipped with the MULTOS operating system. The second contribution focuses on optimizing the capabilities of smart cards using Java Card technology for the implementation of attribute-based credential schemes. These smart cards are presented as a more accessible alternative for a wider consumer base. To overcome limitations in their application programming interface, the thesis devises strategies to augment the constrained support for elliptic curve cryptography and effectively implement such schemes. The third contribution presents the Privacy-Enhancing Authentication System, a robust solution compatible with smart cards, smartphones, and smartwatches. This system addresses the functional challenges associated with smart cards, including the absence of a graphical interface and limited user control over attribute disclosure. Consequently, it offers a practical and deployable solution for real-world scenarios. Finally, the thesis proposes a groundbreaking scheme to safeguard collaborative indoor positioning systems by addressing both privacy and security concerns. This scheme ensures the preservation of privacy and security by eliminating centralized architectures and employing encryption techniques for positioning information. The thesis includes comprehensive details such as protocol use cases, implementation specifics, execution benchmarks, and a comparative analysis with existing protocols.
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Attribute Authentication on Android Platform
Strakoš, Jan ; Ricci, Sara (referee) ; Malina, Lukáš (advisor)
This master’s thesis focuses on implementation of ABC (Anonymous attribute-based credential) pilot system on the Android platform. The support for attribute authentication on the Android platform is very weak in terms of the number of implementations and needs a special attention. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the cryptographic support on the Android platform, the use of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and the Host-Card Emulation (HCE) service. The theoretical part of the thesis also includes a description of attribute authentication schemes, including a pilot RKVAC system. The practical part describes the implementation of the RKVAC system on the Android platform along with the implementation of a custom cryptographic kernel based on the native MCL cryptographic library. The practical part of this thesis describes implementation proces of RKVAC system on Android plaform, that uses native cryptographic library MCL. The final part shows the results of time, memory and computation difficulty of developed applications.
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Attribute Authentication on Android Platform
Strakoš, Jan ; Ricci, Sara (referee) ; Malina, Lukáš (advisor)
This master’s thesis focuses on implementation of ABC (Anonymous attribute-based credential) pilot system on the Android platform. The support for attribute authentication on the Android platform is very weak in terms of the number of implementations and needs a special attention. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the cryptographic support on the Android platform, the use of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and the Host-Card Emulation (HCE) service. The theoretical part of the thesis also includes a description of attribute authentication schemes, including a pilot RKVAC system. The practical part describes the implementation of the RKVAC system on the Android platform along with the implementation of a custom cryptographic kernel based on the native MCL cryptographic library. The practical part of this thesis describes implementation proces of RKVAC system on Android plaform, that uses native cryptographic library MCL. The final part shows the results of time, memory and computation difficulty of developed applications.
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