[Resource Topic] 2011/402: Formalizing Group Blind Signatures and Practical Constructions without Random Oracles

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Title:
Formalizing Group Blind Signatures and Practical Constructions without Random Oracles

Authors: Essam Ghadafi

Abstract:

Group blind signatures combine anonymity properties of both group signatures and blind signatures and offer privacy for both the message to be signed and the signer. Their applications include multi-authority e-voting and distributed e-cash systems. The primitive has been introduced with only informal definitions for its required security properties. We offer two main contributions: first, we provide foundations for the primitive where we present formal security definitions offering various flavors of anonymity relevant to this setting. In the process, we identify and address some subtle issues which were not considered by previous constructions and (informal) security definitions. Our second main contribution is a generic construction that yields practical schemes with round-optimal signing and constant-size signatures. Our constructions permit dynamic and concurrent enrollment of new members, satisfy strong security requirements, and do not rely on random oracles. In addition, we introduce some new building blocks which may be of independent interest.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/402

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