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Unreferenced personal essay. Rathfelder (talk) 13:24, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Finance-related deletion discussions. Rathfelder (talk) 13:24, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

• This 2003 article has gone nowhere in 16 years because it has nowhere to go. According to the deletion policy of the time this would be a "completely idiosyncratic non-topic". It was actually challenged as such on the article's talk page in April 2004. It is not actually a computer science concept. It is not Chaum's blind signatures, which are another article entirely. It is not Chaum's anonymous credentials, which are to be found at digital credential#Anonymous. It is not blinding (cryptography). It is not anything.

  Matt Crypto (talk · contribs) wrote in 2004 that xe could not find this concept anywhere. That is almost still true today. With some exceptions that do not count, it isn't in the literature, which has the aforementioned instead. It isn't an alternative name for anything in the literature, moreover.

  The only places where this turns up in the literature are papers by people who have since plagiarized Wikipedia, and whose reputations for fact checking and accuracy (and knowing their own subject) should be lessened accordingly, by copying either this sentence from the authentication article that EntmootsOfTrolls (talk · contribs) wrote 4 minutes after writing the article at hand or this sentence where it was rewritten in 2008 by Beland (talk · contribs) as part of a merger. Some examples:

  • Erbes 2008, p. 900 is lifted from authentication before the rewrite.
  • Afizi 2015, p. 18 didn't plagiarize Wikipedia word for word xyrself, as xe credits a 2007 paper by Le Xuan Hung for the text in xyr review of the literature.
  • Hung's research taxonomy paper (Hung, p. 4) still includes this sentence today. Sadly, Hung cites a whole bunch of things except for the 2006 version of the Wikipedia article that xyr section on authentication is lifted from word-for-word.
  • Prasad et al. 2012, p. 455 is lifted from the post-rewrite version of the Wikipedia article.

  This is a completely idiosyncratic non-topic, that highlights rampant plagiarism of Wikipedia in substandard computer science literature. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 09:09, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

  • Erbes, Milan (2008). "Smart Home and Health Telematics". In Helal, Abdelsalam; Mokhtari, Mounir; Abdulrazak, Bessam (eds.). The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470379356. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Afizi, Mohd Shukran Mohd (2015). "Literature review". Novel approach of authentication using pixel value graphical password scheme. Anchor Academic Publishing. ISBN 9783954899135. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Hung, Le Xuan. "Research Taxonomy" (PDF). u-Security Research Group. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Prasad, P. E. S. N. Krishna; Prasad, B. D. C. N.; Chakravarthy, A. S. N.; Avadhani, P. S. (2012). "Password Authentication Using Context-Sensitive Associative Memory Neural Networks". In Meghanathan, Natarajan; Chaki, Nabendu; Nagamalai, Dhinaharan (eds.). Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology. Computer Science and Engineering: Second International Conference, CCSIT 2012, Bangalore, India, January 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Part 2. Springer. pp. 454–468. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27308-7_49. ISBN 9783642273087. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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• I don't see my edit in the history, but just skimming this I'd lean toward making this a redirect to Digital credential#Anonymous. This seems to be another name for that concept. -- Beland (talk) 17:05, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Comment. This is not my area of content knowledge, but I did find the use of this term in other academic literature in google books. See here: [1], [2], [3], [4]. Not sure what to think.4meter4 (talk) 13:36, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

• Redirect to Digital credential#Anonymous. Nothing is sourced so there is nothing to merge but the term 'Blind Credential' can be added to the target if a sufficiently reliable source mentions it. 2A02:C7F:4481:8300:90DC:E235:5074:54B0 (talk) 14:30, 23 September 2019 (UTC)