Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2008-02-08
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
16 pages
Scientific paper
In 1998, Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss suggested a cryptographic primitive named proxy re-signatures where a proxy turns a signature computed under Alice's secret key into one from Bob on the same message. The semi-trusted proxy does not learn either party's signing key and cannot sign arbitrary messages on behalf of Alice or Bob. At CCS 2005, Ateniese and Hohenberger revisited the primitive by providing appropriate security definitions and efficient constructions in the random oracle model. Nonetheless, they left open the problem of designing a multi-use unidirectional scheme where the proxy is able to translate in only one direction and signatures can be re-translated several times. This paper solves this problem, suggested for the first time 10 years ago, and shows the first multi-hop unidirectional proxy re-signature schemes. We describe a random-oracle-using system that is secure in the Ateniese-Hohenberger model. The same technique also yields a similar construction in the standard model (i.e. without relying on random oracles). Both schemes are efficient and require newly defined -- but falsifiable -- Diffie-Hellman-like assumptions in bilinear groups.
Libert Benoit
Vergnaud Damien
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