Collision-free accumulators and fail-stop signature schemes without trees

  • Authors:
  • Niko Baric;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Affiliations:
  • dvg Hannover, Hannover, Germany;Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'97 Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

One-way accumulators, introduced by Benaloh and de Mare, can be used to accumulate a large number of values into a single one, which can then be used to authenticate every input value without the need to transmit the others. However, the one-way property does is not sufficient for all applications. In this paper, we generalize the definition of accumulators and define and construct a collision-free subtype. As an application, we construct a fail-stop signature scheme in which many one-time public keys are accumulated into one short public key. In contrast to previous constructions with tree authentication, the length of both this public key and the signatures can be independent of the number of messages that can be signed.