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Retrieve anonymous credentials

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Background

A registration process to acquire an anonymous, verified account goes like this:

  • Registrant provides proof of individuality to a Registrar.
  • Registrar verifies proof, ensures no prior registration, and directs Registrant to a Teller.
  • Teller provides Registrant with anonymous account credentials.

At this point, the Registrant has an account, and only one account. The Registrant hereinafter is a Registered User (simply, User).

Problem

A User can lose (accidentally, or deliberately) their anonymous credentials.

Question

How can:

  • the anonymity of a User‘s account remain cryptographically secure (even to third-parties who have complete database and source code access), such that discovering either the anonymous account or the registration credentials will not reveal that they belong to the same individual;
  • registration of duplicate accounts be prevented; and
  • a User retrieve their lost (or misplaced) account credentials, and only theirs?

I thought homomorphic encryption might be useful here, but I’ve read it is currently too computationally intensive.

Related

Related questions:

(If this would be better suited for Crypto SE, please migrate it.)


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