Universal forgery on a group signature scheme using self-certified public keys

Authors:
Guilin Wang
Affiliations:
Infocomm Security Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore
Venue:
Information Processing Letters
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A group signature scheme allows any group member to sign messages on behalf of the group in an anonymous and unlinkable fashion. In the event of a dispute, a designated group manager can reveal the identity of the signer. In 1999, Tseng and Jan proposed a group signature scheme using self-certified public keys. By attacking their signature verification equation, we demonstrate that their scheme is universally forgeable, i.e., anybody can forge a valid group signature on any message such that the group manager is unable to determine the identity of the signer.