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Electronic tickets demonstrate, without the use of paper, the possession of an authorization or access to a determined service. In this scenario, some security requirements must be accomplished. Moreover, some determined services should guarantee the anonymity of the users in the system. In addition to these requirements, the transferability of a ticket from one user to another (without involving a third party) is useful but also generates other issues to be solved in terms of security, as several attacks could be performed. In this article we present an electronic ticketing system with anonymity and transferability based on the use of group signatures, giving a solution to enable linkability between several group signatures, and also proving their ownership with the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs).
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This work was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [eAEGIS TSI2007-65406-C03-01, ARES-CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004, Audit Transparency Voting Process IPT-430000-2010-31, CO-PRIVACY TIN2011-27076-C03-01, ICWT TIN2012-32757, BallotNext IPT-2012-0603-430000]; and the Government of Catalonia [2009 SGR1135]. The authors are solely responsible for the views expressed in this paper, which do not necessarily reflect the position of UNESCO nor commit that organization.
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Vives-Guasch, A., Payeras-Capellà, M.M., Mut-Puigserver, M., Castellà-Roca, J., Ferrer-Gomila, JL. (2014). Anonymous and Transferable Electronic Ticketing Scheme. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Lioudakis, G., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Foley, S., Fitzgerald, W. (eds) Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security. DPM SETOP 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54568-9_7
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