scholarly journals An Efficient Code-Based Threshold Ring Signature Scheme with a Leader-Participant Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guomin Zhou ◽  
Peng Zeng ◽  
Xiaohui Yuan ◽  
Siyuan Chen ◽  
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Digital signature schemes with additional properties have broad applications, such as in protecting the identity of signers allowing a signer to anonymously sign a message in a group of signers (also known as a ring). While these number-theoretic problems are still secure at the time of this research, the situation could change with advances in quantum computing. There is a pressing need to design PKC schemes that are secure against quantum attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel code-based threshold ring signature scheme with a leader-participant model. A leader is appointed, who chooses some shared parameters for other signers to participate in the signing process. This leader-participant model enhances the performance because every participant including the leader could execute the decoding algorithm (as a part of signing process) upon receiving the shared parameters from the leader. The time complexity of our scheme is close to Courtois et al.’s (2001) scheme. The latter is often used as a basis to construct other types of code-based signature schemes. Moreover, as a threshold ring signature scheme, our scheme is as efficient as the normal code-based ring signature.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Ricardo Reis ◽  
Fábio Borges

With the advent of quantum computing, it urges the definition of a cryptographic standard algorithm that can resist attacks from a quantum computer. Inside this context is GeMSS, a multivariate quadratic signature scheme based on the HFEvconstruct. Schemes of this type have shown great potential throughout the last two decades. This paper traces a comparison of performance and security between GeMSS and other relevant digital signature schemes, showing that despite of its slow signature generation and large key pair, it has a very quick verification process and tiny signatures. It also proposes a method for deriving the size of keys from the security parameter evaluated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
D.Yu. Guryanov ◽  
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D.N. Moldovyan ◽  
A. A. Moldovyan ◽  

For the construction of post-quantum digital signature schemes that satisfy the strengthened criterion of resistance to quantum attacks, an algebraic carrier is proposed that allows one to define a hidden commutative group with two-dimensional cyclicity. Formulas are obtained that describe the set of elements that are permutable with a given fixed element. A post-quantum signature scheme based on the considered finite non-commutative associative algebra is described.


2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 1899-1902
Author(s):  
Ling Ling Wang

Most existing verifiable ring signature schemes are based on traditional PKCs, which cannot resist future attacks of quantum computers. Fortunately, the MQ-problem based Multivariate Public-Key Cryptosystem (MPKC) is an important alternative to traditional PKCs for its potential to resist future attacks of quantum computers. In this paper, we proposed a construction of verifiable ring signature based on MPKC, which has the properties of consistent, unforgery, signer-anonymity and verifiability.


2011 ◽  
Vol 204-210 ◽  
pp. 1062-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Qiao Deng

Digital signature schemes allow a signer to transform any message into a signed message, such that anyone can verify the validity of the signed message using the signer’s public key, but only the signer can generate signed messages. A proxy re-signature, which is a type of digital signatures, has significant applications in many areas. Proxy signature scheme was first introduced by Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss, but that scheme is inefficient and with limited features. After that, some Proxy re-signature schemes were proposed by researchers. This paper constructs a blind proxy re-signatures scheme. Comparing to the previous proxy re-signature schemes, the scheme adds a message blinded feature, and then the security of the scheme is proven.


2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 2192-2196
Author(s):  
Cheng Yu Hu ◽  
Peng Tao Liu

The ring signature can guarantee the signer’s anonymity. Most proposed ring signature schemes have two problems: One is that the size of ring signature depends linearly on the ring size, and the other is that the signer can shift the blame to victims because of the anonymity. Some authors have studied the constant-size ring signature and deniable ring signature to solve these two problems. This paper shows that an identity-based ring signature scheme with constant size has some security problems by using an insecure accumulator and its verification process does not include the message m. Then we combine the concepts of “constant-size” and “deniable” to form an id-based deniable ring signature with constant-size signature. The new scheme with constant-size signature length is proposed based on an improved accumulator from bilinear pairings and it solves the problem of anonymity abuse.


2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 382-385
Author(s):  
Lei Wu

A ring signature scheme enables a signer, in an ad-hoc manner, to sign a signature on behalf of a group of users including himself such that a verifier can be convinced that one of the identified users actually generated the signature but he can not identify the signer. In this paper, we analyse and attack two ring signature related schemes, including a ring signature scheme and a ring signcryption scheme, we prove that they can not satisfy the property of unconditional anonymity, and are all insecure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Yuanju Gan

In t , n threshold signature schemes, any subset of t participants out of n can produce a valid signature, but any fewer than t participants cannot. Meanwhile, a threshold signature scheme should remain robust and unforgeable against up to t − 1 corrupted participants. This nonforgeability property is that even an adversary breaking into up to t − 1 participants should be unable to generate signatures on its own. Existential unforgeability against adaptive chosen message attacks is widely considered as a standard security notion for digital signature, and threshold signature should also follow this accordingly. However, there are two special attack models in a threshold signature scheme: one is the static corruption attack and the other is the adaptive corruption attack. Since the adaptive corruption model appears to better capture real threats, designing and proving threshold signature schemes secure in the adaptive corruption model has been focused on in recent years. If a threshold signature is secure under adaptive chosen message attack and adaptive corruption attack, we say it is fully adaptively secure. In this paper, based on the dual pairing vector spaces technology, we construct a threshold signature scheme and use Gerbush et al.’s dual-form signatures technology to prove our scheme, which is fully adaptively secure in the standard model, and then compare it to other schemes in terms of the efficiency and computation.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258091
Author(s):  
Basma Elias ◽  
Ahmed Younes

Quantum signature is the use of the principles of quantum computing to establish a trusted communication between two parties. In this paper, a quantum signature scheme using amplitude amplification techniques will be proposed. To secure the signature, the proposed scheme uses a partial diffusion operator and a diffusion operator to hide/unhide certain quantum states during communication. The proposed scheme consists of three phases, preparation phase, signature phase and verification phase. To confuse the eavesdropper, the quantum states representing the signature might be hidden, not hidden or encoded in Bell states. It will be shown that the proposed scheme is more secure against eavesdropping when compared with relevant quantum signature schemes.


Author(s):  
Tõnu Mets ◽  
Arnis Parsovs

There is a widespread misconception among some lawyers, technologists and the public that the Estonian digital signature scheme provides reliable proof of the time when a document was digitally signed. In this article Tõnu Mets and Arnis Parsovs show that the legal requirement to establish the time of signing is not met in practice. The related legal requirement that the validation of the digital signature should confirm that the certificate was valid at the time of signing is also not met. The authors analyse the legal consequences of this, and discuss possible solutions for the issues that arise. They note that digital signature schemes used in other countries implementing Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 July 2014 (eIDAS) are likely to share the problems discussed in this article. Index words: Estonia, European Union, Digital signatures, Electronic documents


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Geontae Noh ◽  
Ji Young Chun ◽  
Ik Rae Jeong

In a ring signature scheme, a user selects an arbitrary ring to be able to sign a message on behalf of the ring without revealing the signer’s identity. Whistle-blowers especially find this useful. To date, various ring signature schemes have been proposed, all considered to be secure as existentially unforgeable with respect to insider corruption; that is, an adversary who chooses ring-message pairs for which he requests signatures, corrupts honest users, and obtains their signing keys can not produce forgeries for new ring-message pairs. Lattice-based ring signature schemes offer lower computational overhead and security from quantum attacks. In this paper, we offer a lattice-based scheme. We begin by showing that the existing ring signature schemes are not sufficiently secure, because existential unforgeability still permits a signer to potentially produce a new signature on previously signed messages. Furthermore, we show that existing ring signature schemes from lattices are not even existentially unforgeable with respect to insider corruption. We then improve previous schemes by applying, for the first time, the concept of strong unforgeability with respect to insider corruption to a ring signature scheme in lattices. This offers more security than any previous ring signature scheme: adversaries cannot produce new signatures for any ring-message pair, including previously signed ring-message pairs.


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