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Traceable Ring Signatures with Post-quantum Security

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Traceable ring signature (TRS), a variant of ring signature, allows a signer to sign a message anonymously labeled with a tag on behalf of a group of users, but may reveal the signer’s identity if he creates two signatures with the same tag. TRS provides accountable anonymity for users, and serves as an important role in e-voting systems and e-coupon services. However, current TRS schemes are built on hard problems in number theory that cannot resist quantum attackers. To address this issue, first, we propose a general framework of TRS, by using a non-interactive zero-knowledge proof of knowledge, a collision-resistant hash function, and a pseudorandom function with some additional properties. Then, we construct an efficient TRS scheme in the quantum random oracle model, by instantiating the framework with appropriate lattice-based building blocks. Moreover, the signature size of the lattice-based TRS is logarithmic in the ring size.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China through project 2017YFB0802502, by the National Cryptography Development Fund through project MMJJ20170106, by the foundation of Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory through project 1421120305162112006, the Natural Science Foundation of China through projects 61972019, 61932011, 61772538, 61672083, 61532021, 61472429, 91646203 and 61402029. We thank all the anonymous reviewers whose comments have greatly improved this paper.

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    Hanwen Feng, Jianwei Liu & Qianhong Wu

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    Ya-Nan Li

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Feng, H., Liu, J., Wu, Q., Li, YN. (2020). Traceable Ring Signatures with Post-quantum Security. In: Jarecki, S. (eds) Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2020. CT-RSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12006. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40186-3_19

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