Cramer-Damgård signatures revisited: efficient flat-tree signatures based on factoring

  • Authors:
  • Dario Catalano;Rosario Gennaro

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'informatique, CNRS – École normale supérieure, Paris Cedex 05, France;I.B.M. T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • PKC'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Theory and Practice in Public Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

At Crypto 96 Cramer and Damgård proposed an efficient, tree-based, signature scheme that is provably secure against adaptive chosen message attacks under the assumption that inverting RSA is computationally infeasible. In this paper we show how to modify their basic construction in order to achieve a scheme that is provably secure under the assumption that factoring large composites of a certain form is hard. Interestingly our scheme is as efficient as the original Cramer Damgård solution while relying on a seemingly weaker intractability assumption.