ATRC: An Anonymous Traceable and Revocable Credential System Using Blockchain for VANETs

Abstract

With the number of smart vehicle drivers increasing rapidly, privacy-preserving identity management methods in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) become more imperative and receive much attention from researchers. Since identity leakage or a single point of failure may result in serious consequences in the VANET, the decentralized anonymous credential (DAC) could be a potential approach to construct a robust network. However, the supervision under decentrilized environment could be a necessary and troublesome in the VANETs. In this paper, we present an anonymous traceable and revocable credential system using blockchain, called ATRC, built over a generalized group signature. The underlying group signature not only meets the anonymity requirement but also makes the users master their identities. What's more, to tackle the privacy leakage in the revocation process, we employ the Merkle tree to construct a whitelist, which trades off the efficiency and the privacy. Finally, we gives the comparison and experiment performance to show our scheme holds lightweight on the user side and has fewer computation costs in the show and revocation phase.