[LINK] a different? approach to privacy protection??

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:09 +1100 28/3/12, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>One of our members pointed me to this story. I'd appreciate insight
>if this is anything 'new', or just an application of an old approach
>via 3rd party verification.
><http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility/53654-nec-microsoft-to-develop-anonymous-authentication-for-smartphone-users>NEC, 
>
>Microsoft to develop anonymous authentication for smartphone users
>http://www.itwire.com/journalist/63-stuart-corner
>Stuart Corner
>Tuesday, 27 March 2012 09:14

Can't Credentica's U-Prove library, which Microsoft purchased and put 
in the public domain, do this kind of thing?
http://www.credentica.com/
https://connect.microsoft.com/site1188

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>
><http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news>Your IT -
><http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility>Mobility
>NEC has teamed up with Microsoft, France Telecom and eight other
>international institutions to provide enhanced privacy services for
>smartphones using public key cryptography and 'zero-knowledge proofs'
>to verify the access privileges of a smartphone user without directly
>identifying the user.
>
>According to NEC, the risk of violating user privacy is growing along
>with the growth of services such as payment and location-based
>services because these services verify users and terminals with IDs
>that can be used to track user access and behaviour history.
>
>"As a result, a great deal of attention is being drawn to technology
>that enables service providers to confirm access privileges while
>protecting the anonymity of users and terminals," NEC says.
>
>"However, this technology requires a large amount of computation
>power, comparable to a personal computer, which is a challenge for
>implementing on smartphones, where computing power and battery time
>are more limited." Anonymous authentication technology has the
>potential to solve these problems, according to NEC.
>
>NEC, which is the only Asia-based company contributing to project,
>says it will be contributing advanced research on anonymous
>authentication technology that predates its membership to the consortium.
>
>The
><http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/en/anr-funded-project/?tx_lwmsuivibilan_pi2[CODE]=ANR-11-INSE-013>project 
>
>goes by the name LYRICS (Lightweight privacY-enhancing cRyptography
>for mobIle Contactless Services). It is being funded by the French
>national research agency, l'Agence Nationale de la Recherch (ANR).
>
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