Paper 2015/626

Practical Round-Optimal Blind Signatures in the Standard Model

Georg Fuchsbauer, Christian Hanser, and Daniel Slamanig

Abstract

Round-optimal blind signatures are notoriously hard to construct in the standard model, especially in the malicious-signer model, where blindness must hold under adversarially chosen keys. This is substantiated by several impossibility results. The only construction that can be termed theoretically efficient, by Garg and Gupta (Eurocrypt'14), requires complexity leveraging, inducing an exponential security loss. We present a construction of practically efficient round-optimal blind signatures in the standard model. It is conceptually simple and builds on the recent structure-preserving signatures on equivalence classes (SPS-EQ) from Asiacrypt'14. While the traditional notion of blindness follows from standard assumptions, we prove blindness under adversarially chosen keys under an interactive variant of DDH. However, we neither require non-uniform assumptions nor complexity leveraging. We then show how to extend our construction to partially blind signatures and to blind signatures on message vectors, which yield a construction of one-show anonymous credentials à la "anonymous credentials light" (CCS'13) in the standard model. Furthermore, we give the first SPS-EQ construction under non-interactive assumptions and show how SPS-EQ schemes imply conventional structure-preserving signatures, which allows us to apply optimality results for the latter to SPS-EQ.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
A major revision of an IACR publication in CRYPTO 2015
Keywords
(Partially) Blind SignaturesStandard ModelSPS-EQOne-Show Anonymous Credentials
Contact author(s)
georg fuchsbauer @ ist ac at
History
2015-06-30: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/626
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/626,
      author = {Georg Fuchsbauer and Christian Hanser and Daniel Slamanig},
      title = {Practical Round-Optimal Blind Signatures in the Standard Model},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/626},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/626}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/626}
}
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