Cramer-Damgård signatures revisited: Efficient flat-tree signatures based on factoring

  • Authors:
  • Dario Catalano;Rosario Gennaro

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universitá di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy;I.B.M. T.J.Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

At Crypto 96 Cramer and Damgard proposed an efficient, tree-based, signature scheme that is provably secure against adaptive chosen message attacks under the assumption that inverting RSA is computationally infeasible. In this paper we show how to modify their basic construction in order to achieve a scheme that is provably secure under the assumption that factoring large composites of a certain form is hard. Our scheme is as efficient as the original Cramer Damgard solution while relying on a seemingly weaker intractability assumption.