[Resource Topic] 2024/649: Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives

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Title:
Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives

Authors: Liqun Chen, Changyu Dong, Christopher J. P. Newton, Yalan Wang

Abstract:

Group signatures and their variants have been widely used in privacy-sensitive scenarios such as anonymous authentication and attestation. In this paper, we present a new post-quantum group signature scheme from symmetric primitives. Using only symmetric primitives makes the scheme less prone to unknown attacks than basing the design on newly proposed hard problems whose security is less well-understood. However, symmetric primitives do not have rich algebraic properties, and this makes it extremely challenging to design a group signature scheme on top of them. It is even more challenging if we want a group signature scheme suitable for real-world applications, one that can support large groups and require few trust assumptions. Our scheme is based on MPC-in-the-head non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs, and we specifically design a novel hash-based group credential scheme, which is rooted in the SPHINCS+ signature scheme but with various modifications to make it MPC (multi-party computation) friendly. The security of the scheme has been proved under the fully dynamic group signature model. We provide an implementation of the scheme and demonstrate the feasibility of handling a group size as large as 2^{60}. This is the first group signature scheme from symmetric primitives that supports such a large group size and meets all the security requirements.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/649

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