Paper 2004/093

A Provably Secure Nyberg-Rueppel Signature Variant with Applications

Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros

Abstract

This paper analyzes the modified Nyberg-Rueppel signature scheme (mNR), proving it secure in the Generic Group Model (GM). We also show that the security of the mNR signature is equivalent (in the standard model) to that of a twin signature, while achieving computational and bandwidth improvements. As a provably secure signature scheme, mNR is very efficient. We demonstrate its practical relevance by providing an application to the construction of a provably secure, self-certified, identity-based scheme (SCID). SCID schemes combine some of the best features of both PKI-based schemes (functionally trusted authorities, public keys revocable without the need to change identifier strings) and ID-based ones (lower bandwidth requirements). The new SCID scheme matches the performance achieved by the most efficient ones based on the discrete logarithm, while requiring only standard security assumptions in the Generic Group Model.

Note: This revision adds applications to self-certified public key schemes.

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Published elsewhere. manuscript
Keywords
Generic Group Modelsignature schemesNyberg-Rueppel variantsself-certified identity-based cryptography
Contact author(s)
breno @ cs jhu edu
History
2004-05-07: last of 2 revisions
2004-04-17: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2004/093
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/093,
      author = {Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros},
      title = {A Provably Secure Nyberg-Rueppel Signature Variant with Applications},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2004/093},
      year = {2004},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/093}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/093}
}
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