Abstract: A method for authenticating a prover to a verifier, the prover being provided with a proving key paired to a verification key registered with the verifier, wherein the proving key can be obtained by transforming a protected key and a secret (S) using a transformation (E), characterized in that the prover stores the protected key and does not store the corresponding proving key nor the corresponding verification key in clear, with the exception of storage in transient memory.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2015
Date of Patent:
January 28, 2020
Assignee:
NEXTAUTH NV
Inventors:
Roel Johan Corneel Peeters, Jens Hermans