On the TYS signature scheme

  • Authors:
  • Marc Joye;Hung-Mei Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Security Technologies Department, Gemplus, La Ciotat Cedex, France;Traverse des Jardins, Saint Zacharie, France

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the security of a very efficient signature scheme proposed by C.H. Tan, X. Yi and C.K. Siew: the TYS signature scheme. We show that this scheme is universally forgeable; more specifically, we show that anyone is able to produce a valid TYS signature on a chosen message from an arbitrary valid message/signature pair. We also suggest modifications to the TYS signature scheme and relate the resulting scheme to the Camenisch-Lysyanskaya signature scheme.