### Efficient Two-Move Blind Signatures in the Common Reference String Model

E. Ghadafi and N. P. Smart

##### Abstract

Blind signatures provide a mechanism for achieving privacy and anonymity whereby a user gets the signer to sign a message of his choice without the signer learning the content of the message, nor linking message/signature request pairs when he sees the nal signature. In this paper, we construct a blind signature that requires minimal interaction (two moves) between the user and the signer, and which results in a signature which is a signature with respect to a standard (i.e. non-blind) signature scheme. The signature request protocol is akin to the classic, blind-unblind methodology used for RSA blind signatures in the random oracle model; whilst the output signature is a standard Camenisch-Lysyanskaya signature in bilinear groups. The scheme is secure in the common reference string model, assuming a discrete logarithm related assumption in bilinear groups; namely a new variant of the LRSW assumption. We provide evidence for the hardness of our new variant of the LRSW by showing it is intractable in the generic group model.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Blind signatures
Contact author(s)
nigel @ cs bris ac uk
History
2012-01-16: last of 4 revisions
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/568

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/568,
author = {E.  Ghadafi and N. P.  Smart},
title = {Efficient Two-Move Blind Signatures in the Common Reference String Model},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2010/568},
year = {2010},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/568}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/568}
}

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