An Identity-Based Signature Scheme with Bounded Life-Span

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Delos;Jean-Jacques Quisquater

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '94 Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a signature scheme in which the ability to sign messages of a signer is limited to a fixed number k of signatures. It is an identity-based signature scheme in which each signature can be used only once. We called such schemes "bounded life-span". It is based on mental games and it uses zero-knowledge tools. A validation center is needed to initialize this identity-based scheme. A credential center is used to insure the unicity and the bounded life-span aspects. It allows delegation and numerous practical applications.