Paper 2014/944

Structure-Preserving Signatures on Equivalence Classes and Constant-Size Anonymous Credentials

Georg Fuchsbauer, Christian Hanser, and Daniel Slamanig

Abstract

Structure-preserving signatures (SPS) are a powerful building block for cryptographic protocols. We introduce SPS on equivalence classes (SPS-EQ), which allow joint randomization of messages and signatures. Messages are projective equivalence classes defined on group element vectors, so multiplying a vector by a scalar yields a different representative of the same class. Our scheme lets one adapt a signature for one representative to a signature for another representative without knowledge of any secret. Moreover, given a signature, an adapted signature for a different representative is indistinguishable from a fresh signature on a random message. We propose a definitional framework for SPS-EQ and an efficient construction in Type-3 bilinear groups, which we prove secure against generic forgers. We also introduce set-commitment schemes that let one open subsets of the committed set. From this and SPS-EQ we then build an efficient multi-show attribute-based anonymous credential system for an arbitrary number of attributes. Our ABC system avoids costly zero-knowledge proofs and only requires a short interactive proof to thwart replay attacks. It is the first credential system whose bandwidth required for credential showing is independent of the number of its attributes, i.e., constant-size. We propose strengthened game-based security definitions for ABC and prove our scheme anonymous against malicious organizations in the standard model; finally, we discuss a concurrently secure variant in the CRS model.

Note: This paper corrects and extends eprint report 2014/705.

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in JOC 2019
DOI
10.1007/s00145-018-9281-4
Keywords
Structure-preserving signaturesattribute-based anonymous credentialsset commitments
Contact author(s)
fuchsbau @ di ens fr
daniel slamanig @ ait ac at
History
2021-01-21: last of 2 revisions
2014-11-19: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2014/944
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/944,
      author = {Georg Fuchsbauer and Christian Hanser and Daniel Slamanig},
      title = {Structure-Preserving Signatures on Equivalence Classes and Constant-Size Anonymous Credentials},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2014/944},
      year = {2014},
      doi = {10.1007/s00145-018-9281-4},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/944}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/944}
}
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