A robust verifiably encrypted signature scheme

  • Authors:
  • Jianhong Zhang;Wei Zou

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A verifiably encrypted signature can convince the verifier that a given cipher-text is the encryption of a signature on a given message. It is often used as a building block to construct optimistic fair exchange. Recently, Gu et.al gave an ID-based verifiably encrypted signature scheme and claimed that their scheme was secure in random oracle model. Unfortunately, in this works, we show that their scheme is insecure. And we can mount to universal forgery attack in their model. In other words, any one is able to forge a verifiably encrypted signature on arbitrary message m. Subsequently, a novel verifiably encrypted signature scheme (VES) is proposed and the scheme is proven secure in random oracle model. Moreover, the size of verifiably encrypted signature in our scheme is shorter than that of Gu et.al’s signature.