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Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates

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Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates
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Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN/ASIN: 0262024918
ISBN-13: 9780262024914
Number of pages: 356

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In this book Stefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without sacrificing security. Such certificates function in much the same way as cinema tickets or subway tokens: anyone can establish their validity and the data they specify, but no more than that.

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