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@article{205029,
        author = {Supriya Raghunath Khatake and Dr Ganesh Gorakhnath Taware},
        title = {Anonymous Authentication Using Attribute-Based Encryption to Secure Cloud Storage},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {4837-4842},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=205029},
        abstract = {In today’s information technology environment personal data is exposed to risks every day. Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) has shown to be a useful cryptographic primitive that allows one to build privacy-enhancing technologies. We propose an anonymous authentication protocol based on ABE. It allows users to prove their identity without revealing their identity to anyone, not even verifier.
The proposed scheme enables granting access to users only based on their attributes. Attributes can be anything from user roles to group membership or credentials. This provides an additional privacy guarantee since the identity of a user is not strictly tied to their attributes. We implement our protocol on top of OpenID Connect (OIDC), which is an industry-standard protocol. This allows us to demonstrate the applicability of our protocol to real-world production systems such as cloud environments and federated identity providers.
Our protocol ensures that users remain anonymous during all stages of the system. Further it is collusion-resistant, meaning that multiple users cannot gather attributes together in order to gain access. The protocol is also secured against replay attacks by using timestamped tokens and nonces. Access and keys are distributed in a decentralised manner. We evaluate our protocol and show that it incurs little overhead.},
        keywords = {Access Control, Attribute Based Encryption, Anonymous Authentication, Key Distribution Center, CP-ABE, KP-ABE},
        month = {June},
        }