A Prover-Anonymous and Terrorist-Fraud Resistant Distance-Bounding Protocol
Xavier Bultel, Sébastien Gambs, David Gérault, Pascal Lafourcade, Cristina Onete, Jean–Marc Robert · 2016
Contactless communications have become omnipresent in our daily lives, from simple access cards to electronic passports. Such systems are particularly vulnerable to relay attacks, in which an adversary relays the messages from a prover to a verifier. Distance-bounding protocols were introduced to counter such attacks. Lately, there has been a very active research trend on improving the security of these protocols, but also on ensuring strong privacy properties with respect to active adversaries and malicious verifiers.