Paper 2005/041

On the Security of a Group Signature Scheme with Strong Separability

Lihua Liu and Zhengjun Cao

Abstract

A group signature scheme allows a group member of a given group to sign messages on behalf of the group in an anonymous and unlinkable fashion. In case of a dispute, however, a designated group manager can reveal the signer of a valid group signature. Many applications of group signatures require that the group manager can be split into a membership manager and a revocation manager. Such a group signature scheme with strong separability was proposed in paper [1]. Unfortunately, the scheme is insecure which has been shown in [2][3][4]. In this paper we show that the scheme is untraceable by a simple and direct attack. Besides, we show its universal forgeability by a general attack which only needs to choose five random numbers. We minutely explain the technique to shun the challenge in the scheme.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Group signatureUntraceabilityUniversal forgeability.
Contact author(s)
zjcamss @ hotmail com
History
2005-02-16: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/041
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/041,
      author = {Lihua Liu and Zhengjun Cao},
      title = {On the Security of a Group Signature Scheme with Strong Separability},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/041},
      year = {2005},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/041}
}
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