Title: A new strong multiple designated verifiers signature

Authors: H. Tian

Addresses: School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sun University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Abstract: A Strong Multiple Designated Verifiers Signature (SMDVS) enables a signer to convince a set of verifiers by generating one signature, of which the verification needs the private key of a verifier. After a brief survey of the current SMDVS schemes and attacks, we found that there were reported or applicable attacks on many schemes, and some schemes needed group communications in the signature verification algorithm. We propose a new SMDVS scheme which is secure against current attacks and needs no extra group communications in the verification algorithm. The scheme is proven secure in the random oracle model.

Keywords: SMDVS scheme; attacks; group communication; signature verification; information security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2012.045694

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2012 Vol.3 No.1, pp.1 - 11

Received: 05 Aug 2011
Accepted: 06 Aug 2011
Published online: 20 Dec 2014 *

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