[Resource Topic] 2004/007: Traceable Signatures

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Title:
Traceable Signatures

Authors: Aggelos Kiayias, Yiannis Tsiounis, Moti Yung

Abstract:

We present, implement and apply a new privacy primitive that we call
``Traceable Signatures.‘’ To this end we develop the underlying
mathematical and protocol tools, present the concepts and the underlying
security model, and then realize the scheme and its security proof.
Traceable signatures support an extended set of fairness mechanisms
(mechanisms for anonymity management and revocation) when compared
with the traditional group signature mechanism.
We demonstrate that this extended function is needed for proper
operation and adequate level of privacy in various settings and
applications. For example, the new notion allows (distributed)
tracing of all signatures by a single (misbehaving) party without
opening signatures and revealing identities of any other user in the system.
In contrast, if such tracing is implemented by a state of the art
group signature system, such wide opening of all signatures of a
single user is a (centralized) operation that requires the opening
of {\em all} anonymous signatures and revealing the users associated
with them, an act that violates the privacy of all users.

Our work includes a novel modeling of security in privacy systems
that leads to simulation-based proofs. Security notions
in privacy systems are typically more complex than the traditional
security of cryptographic systems, thus our modeling methodology may
find future applications in other settings.
To allow efficient implementation of our scheme we develop a number of basic tools, zero-knowledge proofs, protocols, and primitives that we use extensively throughout. These novel mechanisms work directly over a group of unknown order, contributing to the efficiency and modularity of our design, and may be of independent interest. The interactive version of our signature scheme yields the notion of ``traceable (anonymous) identification.‘’

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/007

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