Online-untransferable signatures

  • Authors:
  • Moses Liskov;Silvio Micali

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA;CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • 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

Non-transferability of digital signatures is an important security concern, traditionally achieved via interactive verification protocols. Such protocols, however, are vulnerable to "online transfer attacks" -- i.e., attacks mounted during the protocols' executions. In this paper, we show how to guarantee online untransferability of signatures, via a reasonable public-key infrastructure and general assumptions, without random oracles. Our untransferable signatures are as efficient as prior ones that provably provide weaker types of untransferability.