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Ring Signature with Designated Linkability

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Ring signatures enable a user to sign a message so that a ring of possible signers is identified, without revealing exactly which member of that ring actually generated the signature. This concept has been used to construct new cryptographic applications, such as designated signatures, concurrent signatures, etc. To avoid being abused, the concept of linkable ring signatures was introduced. In this concept, when two ring signatures are produced by the same signer, then anyone can link the signatures. In this paper, we introduce a new concept called linkable ring signature with designated linkability that lies between the two. In this new concept, the ring signatures remain anonymous from the public’s point of view. However, they can only be linked by a designated party, whenever necessary. This notion allows the privacy of the signer, but additionally, it also limits the receiver from being abused. We present a generic construction for such schemes, and proceed with an instantiation of our generic construction that is built from the existing linkable ring signature scheme due to Liu et al.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK

    Joseph K. Liu

  2. Centre for Information Security Research, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia

    Willy Susilo

  3. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Duncan S. Wong

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  1. Faculty of Electro-Communication, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, P.O. Box, 182-8585, Chofu, Japan

    Hiroshi Yoshiura

  2. Department of Computer Science, Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, 812-0053, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kouichi Sakurai

  3. Institute of Business Informatics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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  4. Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Takizawa-mura, 020-0193, Iwate, Japan

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Liu, J.K., Susilo, W., Wong, D.S. (2006). Ring Signature with Designated Linkability. In: Yoshiura, H., Sakurai, K., Rannenberg, K., Murayama, Y., Kawamura, S. (eds) Advances in Information and Computer Security. IWSEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908739_8

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