Paper 2013/472

Partially blind password-based signatures using elliptic curves

Kristian Gjøsteen

Abstract

Password-based signatures allow a user who can only remember a password to create digital signatures with the help of a server, without revealing the messages to be signed to the server. Certain applications require the ability to disclose part of the message to the server. We define partially blind password-based signatures and construct a scheme based that we prove secure, based on a novel computational problem related to computing discrete logarithms. Our scheme is based on Nyberg-Rueppel signatures. We give a variant of Nyberg-Rueppel signatures that we prove secure based on our novel computational problem. Unlike previous password-based signature schemes, our scheme can be instantiated using elliptic curve arithmetic over small prime fields. This is important for many applications

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PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
digital signaturesNyberg-Rueppel
Contact author(s)
kristian gjosteen @ math ntnu no
History
2013-08-03: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/472
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/472,
      author = {Kristian Gjøsteen},
      title = {Partially blind password-based signatures using elliptic curves},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2013/472},
      year = {2013},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/472}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/472}
}
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