Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2003

Abstract

A group signature scheme allows a group member of a given group to sign messages on behalf of the group in an anonymous and unlinkable fashion. In case of a dispute, however, a designated group manager can reveal the signer of a valid group signature. Based on the Camenisch-Michels group signature scheme, Kim, Lim and Lee proposed the first group signature scheme with a member deletion procedure at ICISC 2000. Their scheme is very efficient in both communication and computation aspects. Unfortunately, their scheme is insecure. In this paper, we first identify an effective way that allows any verifier to determine whether two valid group signatures are signed by the same group member. Secondly, we find that in their scheme a deleted group member can still update his signing key and then generate valid group signatures after he was deleted from the group. In other words, the Kim-Lim-Lee group signature scheme is linkable and does not support secure group member deletion.

Keywords

Digital signature, group signature, member deletion

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

Information and Communications Security: 5th International Conference, ICICS 2003, Huhehaote, China, October 10-13: Proceedings

Volume

2836

First Page

72

Last Page

83

ISBN

9783540399278

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-540-39927-8_7

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Berlin

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39927-8_7

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