Group signatures with separate and distributed authorities

  • Authors:
  • Jun Furukawa;Shoko Yonezawa

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan;NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

  • Venue:
  • SCN'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security in Communication Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose a new group signature scheme that simultaneously provides the following two properties : (1) the membership authority is able to add a user but not to identify an actual signer, while the tracing authority is able to identify the actual signer but not to add a user, (2) for further decentralization, these two authorities are respectively distributed among multiple entities in a manner efficient enough for practical applications. Previous group signature schemes have only offered one or the other of these two properties. Further, we formalize the security properties.