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Attribute-Based Signature with Policy-and-Endorsement Mechanism

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In this paper a new signature scheme, called Policy-Endorsing Attribute-Based Signature, is developed to correspond with the existing Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption. This signature provides a policy-and-endorsement mechanism. In this mechanism a single user, whose attributes satisfy the predicate, endorses the message. This signature allows the signer to announce his endorsement using an access policy without having to reveal the identity of the signer. The security of this signature, selfless anonymity and existential unforgeability, is based on the Strong Diffie-Hellman assumption and the Decision Linear assumption in bilinear map groups.

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  1. LMAM, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Huai-Xi Wang & Rong-Quan Feng

  2. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yan Zhu

  3. Key Laboratory of Network and Software Security Assurance (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yan Zhu

  4. Information Assurance Center and School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, U.S.A.

    Stephen S. Yau (Fellow, IEEE)

  5. Electronic Engineering Institute, Hefei, 230037, China

    Huai-Xi Wang

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This paper is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10990011, the National Science Foundation of US under Grant No. CCF-0725340, the National Development and Reform Commission under the project of “A Monitoring Platform for Web Safe Browsing”, and China Next Generation Internet CNGI Project under Grant No. CNGI-09-01-12.

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Wang, HX., Zhu, Y., Feng, RQ. et al. Attribute-Based Signature with Policy-and-Endorsement Mechanism. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 25, 1293–1304 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-010-9406-1

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