[Resource Topic] 2004/377: New Distributed Ring Signatures for General Families of Signing Subsets

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Title:
New Distributed Ring Signatures for General Families of Signing Subsets

Authors: Javier Herranz, Germán Sáez

Abstract:

In a distributed ring signature scheme, a subset of users
cooperate to compute a distributed anonymous signature on a
message, on behalf of a family of possible signing subsets. The
receiver can verify that the signature comes from a subset of the
ring, but he cannot know which subset has actually signed.

In this work we use the concept of dual access structures to
construct a distributed ring signature scheme which works with
general families of possible signing subsets. The length of each
signature is linear on the number of involved users, which is
desirable for some families with many possible signing subsets.
The scheme achieves the desired properties of correctness,
anonymity and unforgeability. The reduction in the proof of
unforgeability is tighter than the reduction in the previous
proposals which work with general families.

We analyze the case in which our scheme runs in an identity-based
scenario, where public keys of the users can be derived from their
identities. This fact avoids the necessity of digital
certificates, and therefore allows more efficient implementations
of such systems. But our scheme can be extended to work in more
general scenarios, where users can have different types of keys.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/377

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