Construction of universal designated-verifier signatures and identity-based signatures from standard signatures

  • Authors:
  • Siamak F. Shahandashti;Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Comp. Sci. and Soft. Eng., University of Wollongong, Australia;Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada

  • Venue:
  • PKC'08 Proceedings of the Practice and theory in public key cryptography, 11th international conference on Public key cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give a generic construction for universal designated-verifier signature schemes from a large class, C, of signature schemes. The resulting schemes are efficient and have two important properties. Firstly, they are provably DV-unforgeable, non-transferable and also non-delegatable. Secondly, the signer and the designated verifier can independently choose their cryptographic settings. We also propose a generic construction for identity-based signature schemes from any signature scheme in C and prove that the construction is secure against adaptive chosen message and identity attacks. We discuss possible extensions of our constructions to universal multi-designated-verifier signatures, hierarchical identity-based signatures, identity-based universal designated verifier signatures, and identity-based ring signatures from any signature in C.