Anonymizable ring signature without pairing

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Abstract

Ring signature is a well-known cryptographic primitive that allows any user who has a signing key to anonymously sign a message according to a group of users. Some years ago, Hoshino et al. propose a new kind of ring signature where anybody can transform a digital signature into an anonymous signature according to a chosen group of users; authors present a pairing-based construction that is secure under the gap Diffie-Hellman assumption in the random oracle model. However this scheme is quite inefficient for large group since the generation of the anonymous signature requires a number of pairing computations that is linear in the size of the group. In this paper, we give a more efficient anonymizable signature scheme without pairing. Our anonymization algorithm requires n exponentiations in a prime order group where n is the group size. Our proposal is secure under the discrete logarithm assumption in the random oracle model, which is a more standard assumption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFoundations and Practice of Security - 9th International Symposium, FPS 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsJoaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Frederic Cuppens, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Lingyu Wang, Nadia Tawbi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages214-222
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319519654
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2016 - Quebec, Canada
Duration: 24 Oct 201626 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10128 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec
Period24/10/1626/10/16

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