Dagstuhl Seminar 26171
Privacy-Preserving Authentication
( Apr 19 – Apr 24, 2026 )
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Organizers
- Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University - Fairfax, US)
- Lucjan Hanzlik (CISPA - St. Ingbert, DE)
- Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University - Providence, US)
- Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington - Seattle, US)
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- Michael Gerke (for scientific matters)
- Christina Schwarz (for administrative matters)
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Privacy-preserving authentication is an emerging field focused on enhancing user privacy in digital identity management systems. The current authentication systems often expose user identities, which raises concerns about privacy. This Dagstuhl Seminar addresses key challenges in the development and deployment of privacy-preserving authentication techniques, particularly anonymous credentials and blind signatures, which allow users to prove possession of credentials without revealing their identities.
The seminar explores several critical issues, including the integration of post-quantum security, efficient revocation mechanisms, and the standardization of privacy-enhancing technologies like anonymous credentials, anonymous tokens, blind signatures, etc. We will examine the theoretical foundations and practical deployment of these technologies, focusing on issues such as the scalability of revocation protocols, the efficiency of cryptographic schemes, and their compatibility with real-world systems like decentralized identity infrastructures. Special attention will be given to ongoing standardization efforts, such as the W3C Verifiable Credentials and IETF Privacy Pass. Additionally, we aim to identify future research directions and open problems that need to be addressed for the widespread adoption of privacy-preserving authentication solutions. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to participate in this seminar to foster collaboration and innovation in this rapidly evolving field.
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Foteini Baldimtsi, Lucjan Hanzlik, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Stefano Tessaro
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- Masayuki Abe (NTT - Tokyo, JP) [dblp]
- Martin R. Albrecht (King's College London, GB) [dblp]
- Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University - Fairfax, US) [dblp]
- Nico Döttling (CISPA - Saarbrücken, DE) [dblp]
- Muhammed Esgin (Monash University - Clayton, AU) [dblp]
- Marc Fischlin (TU Darmstadt, DE) [dblp]
- Georg Fuchsbauer (TU Wien, AT) [dblp]
- Lucjan Hanzlik (CISPA - St. Ingbert, DE) [dblp]
- Julia Hesse (IBM Research Europe - Zürich, CH) [dblp]
- Stanislaw Jarecki (University of California, Irvine, US) [dblp]
- Julia Kastner (CWI - Amsterdam, NL) [dblp]
- Eike Kiltz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE) [dblp]
- Markulf Kohlweiss (University of Edinburgh, GB) [dblp]
- Eysa Lee (Barnard College, Columbia University - New York, US) [dblp]
- Anja Lehmann (Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, DE) [dblp]
- Julian Loss (CISPA - Saarbrücken, DE) [dblp]
- Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University - Providence, US) [dblp]
- Vadim Lyubashevsky (IBM Research Europe - Zürich, CH) [dblp]
- René Mayrhofer (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, AT) [dblp]
- Ian Miers (University of Maryland - College Park, US) [dblp]
- Omid Mir (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology - Wien, AT) [dblp]
- Hart Montgomery (Linux Foundation - San Francisco, US) [dblp]
- Ngoc Khanh Nguyen (King's College London, GB) [dblp]
- Octavio Pérez Kempner (NTT - Tokyo, JP) [dblp]
- Michael Reichle (ETH Zürich, CH)
- Dominique Schröder (Technische Universität Wien, AT) [dblp]
- Mahdi Sedaghat (KU Leuven & Soundness, BE)
- Meghna Sengupta (University of Edinburgh, GB)
- Abhi Shelat (Northeastern University - Boston, US) [dblp]
- Tjerand Silde (NTNU - Trondheim, NO) [dblp]
- Daniel Slamanig (Universität der Bundeswehr - München, DE) [dblp]
- Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington - Seattle, US) [dblp]
- Nirvan Tyagi (University of Washington - Seattle, US) [dblp]
- Serge Vaudenay (EPFL - Lausanne, CH) [dblp]
- Benedikt Wagner (Ethereum - Berlin, DE)
Classification
- Cryptography and Security
Keywords
- blind signatures
- anonymous credentials
- zero-knowledge proofs
