Trapdoor sanitizable signatures and their application to content protection

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien Canard;Fabien Laguillaumie;Michel Milhau

  • Affiliations:
  • Orange Labs R&D, Caen Cedex, France;GREYC Université de Caen, Caen Cedex, France;Orange Labs R&D, Caen Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ACNS'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Applied cryptography and network security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Sanitizable signatures allow a designated entity to modify some specific parts of a signed message and to produce a new signature of the resulting message without any interaction with the original signer. In this paper, we extend these sanitizable signatures to formally introduce trapdoor sanitizable signatures. In this concept, the power of sanitization is given to possibly several entities, for a given message/signature by using a trapdoor computed by the signer at any time. We also give a generic construction of such trapdoor sanitizable signatures. Eventually, we apply our new cryptographic tool to group content protection, permitting members of the group to distribute a protected content among themselves.