Paper 1999/008

Verifiable Encryption and Applications to Group Signatures and Signature Sharing

Jan Camenisch and Ivan Damgaard

Abstract

We generalize and improve the security and efficiency of the verifiable encryption scheme of Asokan et al., such that it can rely on more general assumptions, and can be proven secure without assuming random oracles. We show a new application of verifiable encryption to group signatures with separability, these schemes do not need special purpose keys but can work with a wide range of signature, identification, and encryption schemes already in use. Finally, we extend our basic primitive to verifiable threshold and group encryption. By encrypting digital signatures this way, one gets new solutions to the verifiable signature sharing problem.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PS
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Appeared in the THEORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY LIBRARY and has been included in the ePrint Archive.
Keywords
public-key encryptionzero-knowledge protocolsverifiable signature sharinggroup signatures
Contact author(s)
camenisch @ brics dk
History
1999-03-23: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/1999/008
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:1999/008,
      author = {Jan Camenisch and Ivan Damgaard},
      title = {Verifiable Encryption and Applications to Group Signatures and Signature Sharing},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 1999/008},
      year = {1999},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/1999/008}
}
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