### Unrestricted Aggregate Signatures

Mihir Bellare, Chanathip Namprempre, and Gregory Neven

##### Abstract

Secure use of the BGLS aggregate signature schemes is restricted to the aggregation of distinct messages (for the basic scheme) or per-signer distinct messages (for the enhanced, prepend-public-key version of the scheme). We argue that these restrictions preclude interesting applications, make usage of the schemes error-prone and are generally undesirable in practice. Via a new analysis and proof, we show how the restrictions can be lifted, yielding the first truly unrestricted aggregate signature scheme. Via another new analysis and proof, we show that the distinct signer restriction on the sequential aggregate signature schemes of Lysyanskaya et al. can also be dropped, yielding an unrestricted sequential aggregate signature scheme. Finally, we present variants of these schemes with tight security reductions.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. Preliminary version in ICALP 2007. This is the full version.
Keywords
Aggregate signaturessequential aggregate signatures
Contact author(s)
Gregory Neven @ esat kuleuven be
History
2007-05-15: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/285

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/285,
author = {Mihir Bellare and Chanathip Namprempre and Gregory Neven},
title = {Unrestricted Aggregate Signatures},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2006/285},
year = {2006},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/285}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/285}
}

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