Equivocable and extractable commitment schemes

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Di Crescenzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Telcordia Technologies Inc., Morristown, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SCN'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Security in communication networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We investigate commitment schemes with special security properties, such as equivocability and extractability, motivated by their applicability to highly secure commitment schemes, such as nonmalleable or universally-composable commitment schemes. In the public random string model, we present constructions of noninteractive commitment schemes (namely, both the commitment phase and the decommitment phase consist of a single message sent from committer to receiver) that are both equivocable and extractable. One of our constructions uses necessary and sufficient assumptions (thus improving over previous constructions). We combine these constructions with the non-malleability construction paradigm of [8] and obtain, in the public random string model, a noninteractive commitment scheme that is non-malleable with respect to commitment. The assumptions used for this scheme are more general than those used in previous constructions.