Best anonymous credentials that don't use pairings:
Single show, no attributes, symmetric issuer: Privacy Pass; uses VOPRFs
Multi show, attributes, symmetric issuer: CMZ14 (original,
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/516)/CPZ19 (group element attribute variant,
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1416); uses "algebraic MACs" and categorically