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An Efficient Static Blind Ring Signature Scheme

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Blind group/ring signatures are useful for applications such as e-cash and e-voting systems. In this paper, we show that the blindness of some existing blind group/ring signature schemes is easy to break by a malicious anonymous signer of dynamic groups. However, this risk has not been pointed out in these proposals, which may cause misuse of the schemes. Fortunately, for static groups, it is possible to integrate the blindness of message into group/ring signatures. An efficient static blind ring signature is proposed with its security provable under the extended ROS assumptions in the random oracle model plus the generic group model. After the group public key is generated, the space, time, and communication complexities of the relevant parameters and operations are constant.

This work is supported by ARC Discovery Grant DP0557493 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60403007).

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    Qianhong Wu, Willy Susilo & Yi Mu

  2. School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P.R. China

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Wu, Q., Zhang, F., Susilo, W., Mu, Y. (2006). An Efficient Static Blind Ring Signature Scheme. In: Won, D.H., Kim, S. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2005. ICISC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11734727_32

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