Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2006

Abstract

Digital signature is one of the most important primitives in public key cryptography. It provides authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation to many kinds of applications. On signer privacy however, it is generally unclear or suspicious of whether a signature scheme itself can guarantee the anonymity of the signer. In this paper, we give some affirmative answers to it. We formally define the signer anonymity for digital signature and propose some schemes of this type. We show that a signer anonymous signature scheme can be very useful by proposing a new anonymous key exchange protocol which allows a client Alice to establish a session key with a server Bob securely while keeping her identity secret from eavesdroppers. In the protocol, the anonymity of Alice is already maintained when Alice sends her signature to Bob in clear, and no additional encapsulation or mechanism is needed for the signature. We also propose a method of using anonymous signature to solve the collusion problem between organizers and reviewers of an anonymous paper review system.

Keywords

Signature Scheme, Random Oracle, Mobile Client, Message Space, Digital Signature Scheme

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Public Key Cryptography: 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2006, New York, April 24-26

Volume

3958

First Page

347

Last Page

363

ISBN

9783540338512

Identifier

10.1007/11745853_23

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/11745853_23

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