• DocumentCode
    3094136
  • Title

    On the Linkability and Security Analysis of Two Schnorr-Type Blind Signature Schemes

  • Author

    Zhang, Jianhong ; Chen, Hua ; Gao, Shengnan

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Sci., North China Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    12-14 Dec. 2009
  • Firstpage
    286
  • Lastpage
    291
  • Abstract
    As a special digital signature, the blindness of blind signatures can protect the signed contents, this property makes it to distinguish from the other signatures. And it makes it play an important role in plays a central role in applications such as electronic voting and electronic cash system. Recently, Huang et. al and Wang et. al propose a Schnorr-type blind signature schemes, respectively. And they claimed that these schemes were secure. In the paper, we discuss the security Huang et.al´s scheme and Wang et.al´s scheme. And the result shows that the two blind signature schemes are insecure. Huang et.al´s scheme is universally forgeable, namely, any one can produce a forged signature on arbitrary a message. And Wang et.al´s scheme is linkable. Namely, it doesn´t´t satisfy the blindness of blind signature. It means that the signer is able to link a valid message-signature pair obtained by some user. Finally, we give the corresponding attack on the two schemes and analyze the reasons to produce such attack, then give an improved blind signature scheme.
  • Keywords
    digital signatures; Schnorr-type blind signature schemes; digital signature; electronic cash system; electronic voting; security analysis; Blindness; Cryptographic protocols; Digital signatures; Educational institutions; Elliptic curve cryptography; Identity-based encryption; Protection; Public key; Public key cryptography; Security; Schnorr type; blind signature; blindness; security proof; unforgeability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2009. DASC '09. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chengdu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3929-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5421-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DASC.2009.36
  • Filename
    5380366