Paper 2001/048

Forward-Secure Signatures with Optimal Signing and Verifying

Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin

Abstract

Ordinary digital signatures have an inherent weakness: if the secret key is leaked, then all signatures, even the ones generated before the leak, are no longer trustworthy. Forward-secure digital signatures were recently proposed to address this weakness: they ensure that past signatures remain secure even if the current secret key is leaked. We propose the first forward-secure signature scheme for which both signing and verifying are as efficient as for one of the most efficient ordinary signature schemes (Guillou-Quisquater): each requiring just two modular exponentiations with a short exponent. All previously proposed forward-secure signature schemes took significantly longer to sign and verify than ordinary signature schemes. Our scheme requires only fractional increases to the sizes of keys and signatures, and no additional public storage. Like the underlying Guillou-Quisquater scheme, our scheme is provably secure in the random oracle model.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF PS
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. to appear in Crypto-2001
Contact author(s)
itkis @ bu edu
History
2001-06-18: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2001/048
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2001/048,
      author = {Gene Itkis and Leonid Reyzin},
      title = {Forward-Secure Signatures with Optimal Signing and Verifying},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2001/048},
      year = {2001},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/048}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/048}
}
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