Paper 2002/167

Cryptanalysis of Two New Signature Schemes

Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim

Abstract

Group signature and blind signature are very important primitives in cryptography. A group signature scheme allows a group member to sign messages anonymously on behalf of the group and a blind signature scheme can ensure anonymity of the sender of a message. Recently, S. Xia and J. You proposed a group signature scheme with strong separability in which the revocation manager can work without the involvement of the membership manager and J.J-R. Chen and A.P. Chen proposed a blind signature scheme based on dual complexities (which combines factorization and discrete logarithm problem). In this paper, we give a universal forgery attack on Xia-You's group signature scheme which any one (not necessarily a group member) can produce a valid group signature on an arbitrary message, and it is untraceable by the group revocation manager. For Chen-Chen's blind signature scheme, we show that it could not meet the untraceability property of a blind signature, $i.e.$, it could not ensure anonymity of the user.

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Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Group signatureBlind signatureCryptanalysis
Contact author(s)
zhfg @ icu ac kr
History
2002-11-12: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2002/167
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2002/167,
      author = {Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim},
      title = {Cryptanalysis of Two New Signature Schemes},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2002/167},
      year = {2002},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/167}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/167}
}
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