@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR2009-643, author = {Man Ho Au and Patrick P. Tsang and Willy Susilo and Yi Mu}, title = {{Dynamic Universal Accumulators for DDH Groups and Their Application to Attribute-Based Anonymous Credential Systems}}, institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science}, address = {Hanover, NH}, number = {TR2009-643}, year = {2009}, month = {April}, URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2009-643.pdf}, comment = { This report is the extended version of the paper to appear in CT-RSA '09 under the same title. }, abstract = { We present the first dynamic universal accumulator that allows (1) the accumulation of elements in a DDH-hard group G and (2) one who knows x such that y=g^x has --- or has not --- been accumulated, where g generates G, to efficiently prove her knowledge of such x in zero knowledge, and hence without revealing, e.g., x or y. We introduce the Attribute-Based Anonymous Credential System (ABACS), which allows the verifier to authenticate anonymous users according to any access control policy expressible as a formula of possibly negated boolean user attributes. We construct the system from our accumulator. } }