Differential Trust: Dynamic Multi-Authority Anonymous Credentials with Epoch-Weighted Updates

arXiv:2609.18811 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 34 pages. Full version of the paper published at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '26)

Journal ref: 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 26), pp. 6385-6404, USENIX Association, 2026

Code: https://github.com/sourav1547/wts

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Verification — 83× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verifier — 39× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Aggregation — 29× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Core — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Weighted Threshold Signature — 8× in this paper
Communication Overhead — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Computational overhead — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Inner Product Argument — 3× in this paper
Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generic Group Model — 2× in this paper
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 2× in this paper
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Anonymity Set — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Public Key Infrastructure — 1× in this paper
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers

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