Unconditionally Secure Digital Signatures

  • Authors:
  • David Chaum;Sandra Roijakkers

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '90 Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

All known digital signature schemes can be forged by anyone having enough computing power. For a finite set of participants, we can overcome this weakness.We present a polynomial time protocol in which a participant can convince (with an exponentially small error probability) any other participant that his signature is valid. Moreover, such a convinced participant can convince any other participant of the signature's validity, without interaction with the original signer.An extension allows, in most cases, a participant who receives a signature from any source to convince each other participant of its validity. If a participant cannot use the signature to convince others, he knows so when he receives it.