Paper 2022/867

The State of the Union: Union-Only Signatures for Data Aggregation

Diego F. Aranha, Aarhus University
Felix Engelmann, IT University of Copenhagen
Sebastian Kolby, Aarhus University
Sophia Yakoubov, Aarhus University
Abstract

A union-only signature (UOS) scheme (informally introduced by Johnson et al. at CT-RSA 2002) allows signers to sign sets of messages in such a way that (1) any third party can merge two signatures to derive a signature on the union of the message sets, and (2) no adversary, given a signature on some set, can derive a valid signature on any strict subset of that set (unless it has seen such a signature already). Johnson et al. originally posed building a UOS as an open problem. In this paper, we make two contributions: we give the first formal definition of a UOS scheme, and we give the first UOS constructions. Our main construction uses hashing, regular digital signatures, Pedersen commitments and signatures of knowledge. We provide an implementation that demonstrates its practicality. Our main construction also relies on the hardness of the short integer solution (SIS) problem; we show how that this assumption can be replaced with the use of groups of unknown order. Finally, we sketch a UOS construction using SNARKs; this additionally gives the property that the size of the signature does not grow with the number of merges.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Minor revision. SCN 2022
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-14791-3_17
Keywords
homomorphic signaturesunion-only signature schemesanonymitysoftware implementation
Contact author(s)
dfaranha @ cs au dk
fe-research @ nlogn org
sk @ cs au dk
sophia yakoubov @ cs au dk
History
2023-07-14: revised
2022-07-02: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/867
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/867,
      author = {Diego F. Aranha and Felix Engelmann and Sebastian Kolby and Sophia Yakoubov},
      title = {The State of the Union: Union-Only Signatures for Data Aggregation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/867},
      year = {2022},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-14791-3_17},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/867}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/867}
}
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