A Secure E-Ticketing Scheme for Mobile Devices with Near Field Communication (NFC) That Includes Exculpability and Reusability

Vives-Guasch, Arnau; Payeras–Capellà, M. Magdalena; Mut–Puigserver, Macià; Castellà‐Roca, Jordi; Ferrer-Gomila, Josep-Lluís

doi:10.1587/transinf.e95.d.78

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“…Vives-Guasch et al [17] classified e-ticketing schemes into smart-card-based and non-smartcard-based systems. The smart-card-based systems use contact or contactless smart cards as the medium to offer limited ticketing services [18].…”

Section: E-ticketing Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ticket system discussed in this study is the latter type of scheme. Generally, four participants are involved in the e-ticketing system: an issuer, user, collector and third-party provider [17,19,20]. An issuer creates and issues a ticket with specified contents.…”

Section: E-ticketing Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As e-tickets are valuable assets, there must be a trustworthy mechanism supporting the transaction of e-tickets. The traditional e-ticket system introduces a trusted third party (TTP) to verify the transactions to achieve mutual trust among the parties involved in the transactions [17,19,20]. A trusted third party may be an independent agency or a trading platform.…”

Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design of an E-Voucher System for Supporting Social Welfare Using Blockchain Technology

Hsu

Huang

2020

Sustainability

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Issuing vouchers is a means of implementing social welfare. There are some security concerns about paper-based vouchers, such as counterfeiting, reproducing, their low operating efficiency and so on. This study explores how to apply blockchain technology and cryptography to build a secure e-voucher system in order to solve various shortcomings of paper vouchers. A feasible application model is proposed that integrates blockchain technology in the context of vouchers to support the field of social welfare. In this study, we conducted an analysis to prove that the security requirements of the e-voucher system are met when applying this model. Subsequently, we used the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain platform and Kafka ordering services to implement the campus welfare meal voucher system. A large number of experimental data were obtained to show that the system has a satisfactory performance. In the conclusion section, we discussed the theoretical and management implications of this study, and how this study meets UN Sustainable Development Goals.Sustainability 2020, 12, 3362 2 of 22 stores then ask the government or non-profit organizations for money with the voucher received. Government or non-profit organizations may use cash vouchers to reach consumption incentives or public welfare. In Zambia, poverty is a challenge that this country has always faced. Since agriculture is the main economic body, the Zambian government launched the Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) to subsidize farmers' crop losses due to natural disasters. The government issued a physical pre-paid voucher card to the farmer, and the farmer can use the card to redeem agricultural input supply. Zambia expects farmers who have been subsidized for two years to leave the plan, but the government has no way to track who has reached the subsidy deadline, thus the cost of FISP has exploded. Later, Zambia decided to build an electronic voucher system to try to solve some problems [8,9]. However, the Zambian government still faced some problems, which we will discuss later in the next section.Since a voucher is equivalent to proof of cash value and is not redeemable for cash, the anti-counterfeiting of vouchers is a very important issue. Because vouchers have a welfare purpose, only eligible individuals can receive and use vouchers. Therefore, preventing the transfer of vouchers is also a very important issue. Moreover, the relevant parties involved in the e-voucher system are more diverse than those involved in the general admission system, so mutual trust between groups is a key factor in the success of the e-voucher system. Recently, an emerging technology, called blockchain, has brought many new opportunities to the industry. Blockchain technology achieves trust among parties and fault tolerance through cryptography and decentralized architecture. The blockchain has evolved over several stages since its introduction. Virtual currency is the earliest application of blockchain technology. Gradually, it has been found that the special features of blockc...

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Section: E-ticketing Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E-ticketing Schemesmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Implicationsmentioning

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“…For instance, existing technologies such as U-prove may fail to provide the unlinkability property if the user does not go online regularly to refresh his pseudonym [13]. This was further confirmed by a study of Vives-Guasch and co-authors [14], which shows that most of current proposals in the literature use pseudonyms in order to achieve revocable anonymity but do not prevent the tracking of these pseudonyms.…”

Section: Security and Privacy Requirements Of E-ticketingmentioning

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A Privacy-Preserving NFC Mobile Pass for Transport Systems

Arfaoui¹,

Dabosville²,

Gambs³

et al. 2014

ICST Trans Mobile Comm Appl

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International audienceThe emergence of the NFC (Near Field Communication) technology brings new capacities to the next generation of smartphones, but also new security and privacy challenges. Indeed through its contactless interactions with external entities, the smartphone of an individual will become an essential authentication tool for service providers such as transport operators. However, from the point of view of the user, carrying a part of the service through his smartphone could be a threat for his privacy. Indeed, an external attacker or the service provider himself could be tempted to track the actions of the user. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving contactless mobile service, in which a user’s identity cannot be linked to his actions when using the transport system. The security of our proposition relies on the combination of a secure element in the smartphone and on a privacy-enhancing cryptographic protocol based on a variant of group signatures. In addition, although a user should remain anonymous and his actions unlinkable in his daily journeys, we designed a technique for lifting his anonymity in extreme circumstances. In order to guarantee the usability of our solution, we implemented a prototype demonstrating that our solution meets the major functional requirements for real transport systems: namely that the mobile pass can be validated at a gate in less than 300 ms, and this even if the battery of the smartphone is exhausted

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“…Kuntze and Schmidt [38] proposed a scheme to generate pseudonym tickets by using the identities embedded in attestation identity keys (AIKs) certified by the privacy certificate authority (PCA). Vives-Guasch et al [39] proposed a light-weight e-ticket scheme using pseudonyms which also addressed exculpability (i.e. a service provider cannot falsely accuse a user of having overspent her ticket, and the user is able to demonstrate that she has already validated the ticket before using it) and reusability (i.e.…”

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Privacy-Preserving Electronic Ticket Scheme with Attribute-Based Credentials

Han

Chen

Schneider

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Comput.

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Electronic tickets (e-tickets) are electronic versions of paper tickets, which enable users to access intended services and improve services' efficiency. However, privacy may be a concern of e-ticket users. In this paper, a privacy-preserving electronic ticket scheme with attribute-based credentials is proposed to protect users' privacy and facilitate ticketing based on a user's attributes. Our proposed scheme makes the following contributions: (1) users can buy different tickets from ticket sellers without releasing their exact attributes; (2) two tickets of the same user cannot be linked; (3) a ticket cannot be transferred to another user; (4) a ticket cannot be double spent; (5) the security of the proposed scheme is formally proven and reduced to wellknown (q-strong Diffie-Hellman) complexity assumption; (6) the scheme has been implemented and its performance empirically evaluated. To the best of our knowledge, our privacy-preserving attribute-based e-ticket scheme is the first one providing these five features. Application areas of our scheme include event or transport tickets where users must convince ticket sellers that their attributes (e.g. age, profession, location) satisfy the ticket price policies to buy discounted tickets. More generally, our scheme can be used in any system where access to services is only dependent on a user's attributes (or entitlements) but not their identities.

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A Secure E-Ticketing Scheme for Mobile Devices with Near Field Communication (NFC) That Includes Exculpability and Reusability

Cited by 14 publications

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Design of an E-Voucher System for Supporting Social Welfare Using Blockchain Technology

Design of an E-Voucher System for Supporting Social Welfare Using Blockchain Technology

A Privacy-Preserving NFC Mobile Pass for Transport Systems

Privacy-Preserving Electronic Ticket Scheme with Attribute-Based Credentials

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