Group signatures

  • Authors:
  • David Chaum;Eugène Van Heyst

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'91 Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new type of signature for a group of persons, called a group signature, which has the following properties: (i) only members of the group can sign messages; (ii) the receiver can verify that it is a valid group signature, but cannot discover which group member made it; (iii) if necessary, the signature can be "opened", so that the person who signed the message is revealed. The group signatures are a "generalization" of the credential/ membership authentication schemes, in which one person proves that he belongs to a certain group. We present four schemes that satisfy the properties above. Not all these schemes arc based on the same cryptographic assumption. In some of the schemes a trusted centre is only needed during the setup; and in other schemes, each pason can create the group he belongs to.