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Last modified: 2026-10-28

Papers on electronic identity, privacy and anonymous credentials in the vault (49 papers). The classes are computed over all papers of the vault; see all papers.

Ranked by citation counts from OpenAlex:

  • Foundational papers: the 20 most-cited papers in the vault.
  • Influential papers: of the rest, the top 25 % by citations per year, so that recent work can qualify.
  • Other papers: the rest, including papers that OpenAlex doesn't know (mostly recent IACR ePrints and reports).

Citation counts are only a rough guide: recent papers and ePrints are often missing or under-counted.

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Foundational papers

Paper Year Citations Per year
Signature Schemes and Anonymous Credentials from Bilinear Maps (Camenisch, Lysyanskaya 2004) 2004 1002 43.6
A Signature Scheme with Efficient Protocols (Camenisch, Lysyanskaya 2002) 2002 692 27.7
A Terminology for Talking about Privacy by Data Minimization: Anonymity, Unlinkability, Undetectability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management (Pfitzmann, Hansen 2010) 2010 663 39.0

Influential papers

Paper Year Citations Per year
Short Randomizable Signatures (Pointcheval, Sanders 2016) 2016 336 30.5
CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity with Legacy Compatibility, Sybil-Resistance, and Accountability (Maram et al. 2021) 2021 166 27.7
zk-creds: Flexible Anonymous Credentials from zkSNARKs and Existing Identity Infrastructure (Rosenberg, White, Garman, Miers 2023) 2023 112 28.0
Revisiting BBS Signatures (Tessaro, Zhu 2023) 2023 64 16.0

Other papers

Paper Year Citations Per year
Constant-Size Dynamic k-TAA (Au, Susilo, Mu 2006) 2006 301 14.3
Anonymous Credentials Light (Baldimtsi, Lysyanskaya 2013) 2013 182 13.0
Anonymous Attestation Using the Strong Diffie Hellman Assumption Revisited (Camenisch, Drijvers, Lehmann 2016) 2016 120 10.9
Algebraic MACs and Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials (Chase, Meiklejohn, Zaverucha 2014) 2014 113 8.7
The Signal Private Group System and Anonymous Credentials Supporting Efficient Verifiable Encryption (Chase, Perrin, Zaverucha 2020) 2020 60 8.6
Cinderella: Turning Shabby X.509 Certificates into Elegant Anonymous Credentials with the Magic of Verifiable Computation (Delignat-Lavaud, Fournet, Kohlweiss, Parno 2016) 2016 56 5.1
Issuer-Hiding Attribute-Based Credentials (Bobolz, Eidens, Krenn, Ramacher, Samelin 2021) 2021 46 7.7
U-Prove Cryptographic Specification V1.1 (Paquin, Zaverucha 2011) 2011 45 2.8
SoK: Managing risks of linkage attacks on data privacy (Powar, Beresford 2023) 2023 30 7.5
Improved Algebraic MACs and Practical Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials (Barki, Brunet, Desmoulins, Traoré 2016) 2016 27 2.5
SoK: Anonymous Credentials (Kakvi, Martin, Putman, Quaglia 2023) 2023 22 5.5
SoK: Trusting Self-Sovereign Identity (Krul, Paik, Ruj, Kanhere 2024) 2024 21 7.0
Practical Post-Quantum Signatures for Privacy (Argo, Güneysu, Jeudy, Land, Roux-Langlois, Sanders 2024) 2024 20 6.7
SoK: Privacy-Preserving Reputation Systems (Gurtler, Goldberg 2021) 2021 17 2.8
SoK: Secure E-Voting with Everlasting Privacy (Haines, Mosaheb, Müller, Pryvalov 2023) 2023 16 4.0
D2.2 Architecture for Attribute-based Credential Technologies — Final Version (ABC4Trust) (Bichsel et al. 2014) 2014 14 1.1
SoK: Technical Implementation and Human Impact of Internet Privacy Regulations (Birrell et al. 2024) 2024 9 3.0
SoK: A Framework and Guide for Human-Centered Threat Modeling in Security and Privacy Research (Usman, Zappala 2025) 2025 7 3.5
Lattice-Based Proof-Friendly Signatures from Vanishing Short Integer Solutions (Dubois, Klooß, Lai, Woo 2025) 2025 6 3.0
ALLOSAUR: Accumulator with Low-Latency Oblivious Sublinear Anonymous credential Updates with Revocations (Jaques, Lodder, Montgomery 2022) 2022 5 1.0
Efficient Proofs of Possession for Legacy Signatures (Woo, Ozdemir, Sharp, Pornin, Grubbs 2025) 2025 4 2.0
Anonymous Credentials from ECDSA (Frigo & shelat 2024) 2024 3 1.0
SoK: (Un)usable Privacy: the Lack of Overlap between Privacy-Aware Sensing and Usable Privacy Research (Iravantchi, Emami-Naeini, Sample 2025) 2025 2 1.0
Device-Bound Anonymous Credentials With(out) Trusted Hardware (Friedrichs, Harding, Lehmann, Lysyanskaya 2025) 2025 1 0.5
Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials (Orrù 2025) 2025 1 0.5
On the (Privacy) Harms of the European Digital Identity Framework (Knabenhans, Veitch, Raynal, Stadler, Chatel, Lueks, Troncoso 2026) 2026 0 0.0
Device Binding for Anonymous Credentials on Legacy Phones (Lehmann, Zacharakis 2026) 2026 0 0.0
SoK: Anonymous Credentials for Digital Identity Wallets (Bormann, Lehmann 2026) 2026 0 0.0
Vision: A Modular Framework for Anonymous Credential Systems (Lehmann, Sidorenko, Zacharakis 2025) 2025 0 0.0
Secure and Privacy-Preserving Credentials for E-ID - Final Report (Dengler, Humbert, Gasser 2026) 2026 — —
Secure and Privacy-Preserving Credentials for E-ID Proof-of-Concept (Gasser, Humbert, Elghareeb 2026) 2026 — —
OpenAC: Open Design for Transparent and Lightweight Anonymous Credentials (Eagen, Ngo, Rushi, Tong, Tsai, Xia 2026) 2026 — —
Server-Aided Anonymous Credentials (Chairattana-Apirom, Harding, Lysyanskaya, Tessaro 2025) 2025 — —
Security Analysis of the Swiss e-ID & Trust Infrastructure (Egger 2025) 2025 — —
An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World (Mayrhofer, Roland, Höller, Hofer, Lins 2025) 2025 — —
Taxonomy for Privacy-Preserving Electronic Identities (Gasser, Humbert, Elghareeb 2025) 2025 — —
General-Purpose Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable Credentials (Mombelli 2025) 2025 — —
Cryptographers' Feedback on the EU Digital Identity's ARF (Baum et al. 2024) 2024 — —
Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Revocation of Verifiable Credentials (Colombo 2024) 2024 — —
The BBS# protocol: Technical details (Orange 2024) 2024 — —
Crescent: Stronger Privacy for Existing Credentials (Paquin, Policharla, Zaverucha 2024) 2024 — —
How to Bind Anonymous Credentials to Humans (Hesse, Singh, Sorniotti 2023) 2023 — —