Formal Security Proofs for a Signature Scheme with Partial Message Recovery

  • Authors:
  • Daniel R. L. Brown;Donald B. Johnson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CT-RSA 2001 Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Topics in Cryptology: The Cryptographer's Track at RSA
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Pintsov-Vanstone signature scheme with partial message recovery (PVSSR) is a signature scheme with low message expansion (overhead) and variable length recoverable and non-recoverable message parts. The scheme uses three cryptographic primitives: a symmetric cipher, hash function and an elliptic curve group. We give three security proofs for PVSSR in this paper. Each proof makes a concrete and necessary assumption about one primitive, and models the other two primitives by idealizations. Thus, PVSSR with a strong cipher may offer greater security than other common variants of ElGamal signatures.