A new conditionally anonymous ring signature

  • Authors:
  • Shengke Zeng;Shaoquan Jiang;Zhiguang Qin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A conditionally anonymous ring signature, first studied by Komano et al. (RSA06) (termed as a deniable ring signature), is a ring signature except that the anonymity is conditional. Specifically, it allows an entity to confirm/refute that he generated a signature. A group signature also has conditional anonymity since a group manager can revoke a signer's anonymity. However, the group in this case is fixed, unlike a ring signature where a group is ad hoc. In this paper, we construct a new conditionally anonymous ring signature. Our signing/verification algorithms are asymptotically most efficient, compared with all known schemes. Our confirmation/disavowal protocols are non-interactive with constant costs while the known schemes have a cost linear in either ring size n or security parameter s.