How to make efficient fail-stop signatures

  • Authors:
  • Eugène Van Heyst;Torben Pryds Pedersen

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Aarhus University, Computer Science Department, Århus C, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'92 Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Fail-stop signatures (introduced in [WP89]) have the very nice property that the signer is secure against unlimited powerful forgers. However, the known fail-stap signatures require very long keys, and they are quite inefficient, because messages are signed bit-wise. This paper presents a fail-stop signature scheme, in which signing a message block requires two modular multiplications and verification requires less than two modular exponentiations. Furthermore a construction is shown of an undeniable signature scheme, which is unconditionally secure for the signer, and which allows the signer to convert undeniable signatures into fail-stop signatures. This is the first published undeniable signature having this property.