Efficient threshold RSA signatures with general moduli and no extra assumptions

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Damgård;Kasper Dupont

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University;Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University

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

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Abstract

We propose techniques that allow construction of robust threshold RSA signature schemes that can work without a trusted dealer using known key generation protocols and is as efficient as the best previous schemes. We do not need special conditions on the RSA modulus, extra complexity or set-up assumptions or random oracles. An “optimistic” variant of the scheme is even more efficient in case no faults occur. Some potential more general applications of our basic idea are also pointed out.