Linkability of some blind signature schemes

Unforgeability and blindness are two important properties of blind signature. The latter means that after interacting with various users, the signer is unable to link a valid message-signature pair. In ICCSA 2006, Zhang et al. showed that a signer in an identity-based blind signature scheme proposed...

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Main Authors: Heng, Swee-Huay, Yap, Wun-She, Khoo, Khoongming
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007
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author Heng, Swee-Huay
Yap, Wun-She
Khoo, Khoongming
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Khoo, Khoongming
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description Unforgeability and blindness are two important properties of blind signature. The latter means that after interacting with various users, the signer is unable to link a valid message-signature pair. In ICCSA 2006, Zhang et al. showed that a signer in an identity-based blind signature scheme proposed by Huang et al. is able to link a valid messagesignature pair obtained by some-user. They also presented an improved scheme to overcome this flaw. In ICICIC 2006, Zhang and Zou showed that the identity-based blind signature scheme proposed by Zhang and Kim also suffered from the similar linkability attack. In this paper, we first show that the so-called linkability can be shown for Zhang et al. scheme as well. We then point out that the linkability attack against the Huang et al. scheme and the Zhang-Kim scheme is invalid.
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spelling mmu-31332013-11-15T07:52:03Z http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3133/ Linkability of some blind signature schemes Heng, Swee-Huay Yap, Wun-She Khoo, Khoongming T Technology (General) QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science Unforgeability and blindness are two important properties of blind signature. The latter means that after interacting with various users, the signer is unable to link a valid message-signature pair. In ICCSA 2006, Zhang et al. showed that a signer in an identity-based blind signature scheme proposed by Huang et al. is able to link a valid messagesignature pair obtained by some-user. They also presented an improved scheme to overcome this flaw. In ICICIC 2006, Zhang and Zou showed that the identity-based blind signature scheme proposed by Zhang and Kim also suffered from the similar linkability attack. In this paper, we first show that the so-called linkability can be shown for Zhang et al. scheme as well. We then point out that the linkability attack against the Huang et al. scheme and the Zhang-Kim scheme is invalid. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007-05 Book Section NonPeerReviewed text en http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3133/1/Linkability%20of%20Some%20Blind%20Signature%20Schemes.pdf Heng, Swee-Huay and Yap, Wun-She and Khoo, Khoongming (2007) Linkability of some blind signature schemes. In: Information Security Theory and Practices. Smart Cards, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4462). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 80-89. ISBN 978-3-540-72353-0 http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-72354-7_7 10.1007/978-3-540-72354-7_7 10.1007/978-3-540-72354-7_7 10.1007/978-3-540-72354-7_7
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
Heng, Swee-Huay
Yap, Wun-She
Khoo, Khoongming
Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title_full Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title_fullStr Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title_full_unstemmed Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title_short Linkability of some blind signature schemes
title_sort linkability of some blind signature schemes
topic T Technology (General)
QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
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http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3133/1/Linkability%20of%20Some%20Blind%20Signature%20Schemes.pdf