Quasi-efficient revocation of group signatures

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Ateniese;Dawn Song;Gene Tsudik

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD;Computer Science Division, EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA;Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • FC'02 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Financial cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Several interesting group signature schemes have been proposed to-date. However, in order for the entire group signature concept to become practical and credible, the problem of secure and efficient group member revocation must be addressed. In this paper, we construct a new revocation method for group signatures based on the signature scheme by Ateniese et al. [ACJT]. This new method represents an advance in the state-of-the-art since the only revocation schemes proposed thus far are either: 1) based on implicit revocation and the use of fixed time periods, or 2) require the signature size to be linear in the number of revoked members. Our method, in contrast, does not rely on time periods, offers constant-length signatures and constant work for the signer.