Paper 2000/019

Anna Lysyanskaya

Abstract

A threshold cryptosystem or signature scheme is a system with $n$ participants where an honest majority can successfully decrypt a message or issue a signature, but where the security and functionality properties of the system are retained even as the adversary corrupts up to $t$ players. We present the novel technique of a committed proof, which is a new general tool that enables security of threshold cryptosystems in the presence of the adaptive adversary. We also put forward a new measure of security for threshold schemes secure in the adaptive adversary model: security under concurrent composition. Using committed proofs, we construct concurrently and adaptively secure threshold protocols for a variety of cryptographic applications. In particular, based on the recent scheme by Cramer-Shoup, we construct adaptively secure threshold cryptosystems secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack under the DDH intractability assumption.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Part of this paper will appear in Eurocrypt2000
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Contact author(s)
anna @ theory lcs mit edu
History
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2000/019

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2000/019,
author = {Anna Lysyanskaya},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2000/019},
year = {2000},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2000/019}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2000/019}
}

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