A Traceable Anonymous Authentication Method For Mimic Defense

Mimic-Defense enables active defense of systems by building DHR (dynamic heterogeneous redundancy) structure. The existing authentication between modules in DHR is based on specific identity information and lacks the protection of the identity information of the heterogeneous executor. In this paper, we integrated the direct anonymous authentication protocol DAA with Mimic-Defense, and proposed the traceable anonymous authentication method Track-DAA for Mimic-Defense, which combines the dispatcher and arbitrator in Mimic-Defense with Issuer and Verifier in the DAA protocol respectively. We added the new Track process which enables Issuer to trace the identity information of a specific platform. The safety of Track-DAA is verified, and its operational efficiency is analyzed. The results show that Track-DAA is an efficient traceable anonymous authentication for Mimic-Defense.