The mathematical underpinnings of the U-Prove technology have been published in the book “Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates; Building in Privacy,” authored by Dr. Stefan Brands and published by The MIT Press in August 2000 (ISBN 0-262-02491-8, first edition) with a foreword by professor Ronald L. Rivest. The MIT Press has kindly granted us the permission to make the book contents available for free download, subject to the following copyright notice.

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• Title Pages
  
  
• Contents
  
  
• Foreword
  
  
• Preface
  
  
• Summary
  
  
• List of Figures
  
  
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
  
  
• Chapter 2 - Cryptographic Preliminaries
  
  
• Chapter 3 - Showing Protocols with Selective Disclosure
  
  
• Chapter 4 - Restrictive Blind Issuing Protocols
  
  
• Chapter 5 - Combining Issuing and Showing Protocols
  
  
• Chapter 6 - Smartcard Integration
  
  
• Epilogue: The Broader Perspective
  
  
• References
  
  
• Index

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