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Anonymous Authentication after Lindell

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 1Anonymous Authentication
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 4This software implements the anonymous authentication as described by Lindell, page 12
 5(https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-07/Lindell/Whitepaper/bh-usa-07-lindell-WP.pdf).
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 7It uses the well known NaCl library for public key cryptography. To verify the client's anonymity in step 4,
 8the cypher text must be deterministic. For this reason, a deterministic random number generator is used.
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10## What's the use?
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12Please refer to above paper to get an overview of what anonymous authentication is.