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On the Relation between Redactable and Sanitizable Signature Schemes

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Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2014)

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Malleable signature schemes (\(\mathcal MSS\)) enable a third party to alter signed data in a controlled way, maintaining a valid signature after an authorized change. Most well studied cryptographic constructions are (1) redactable signatures (\(\mathcal RSS\)), and (2) sanitizable signatures (\(\mathcal SSS\)). \(\mathcal RSS\)s allow the removal of blocks from a signed document, while \(\mathcal SSS\)s allow changing blocks to arbitrary strings. We rigorously prove that \(\mathcal RSS\)s are less expressive than \(\mathcal SSS\)s: no unforgeable \(\mathcal RSS\) can be transformed into an \(\mathcal SSS\). For the opposite direction we give a black-box transformation of a single \(\mathcal SSS\), with tightened security, into an \(\mathcal RSS\).

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    Hermann de Meer

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  3. Institute of IT-Security and Security Law (ISL), University of Passau, Germany

    Hermann de Meer, Henrich C. Pöhls & Joachim Posegga

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de Meer, H., Pöhls, H.C., Posegga, J., Samelin, K. (2014). On the Relation between Redactable and Sanitizable Signature Schemes. In: Jürjens, J., Piessens, F., Bielova, N. (eds) Engineering Secure Software and Systems. ESSoS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8364. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04897-0_8

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