UNIVERSALLY COMPOSABLE BLIND SIGNATURE FUNCTIONALITY
Shirley Cheung, C. H. LEE, Yunlei Zhao
Blind signatures play a critical role in digital cash systems. In this paper, we investigate the blind signature functionality in the framework of universally composable (UC) security — the strongest security guarantees up to now for cryptographic protocols over the Internet. We present the universally composable blind signature functionality, [Formula: see text]. Our approach is based on a new UC signature functionality [Formula: see text], which is a modified version of the original signature functionality [Formula: see text] presented by Canetti. We also prove that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are actually equivalent with respect to non-adaptive adversaries. Our result is of both theoretical and practical consequence to future research studies and practical implementations of digital cash systems with universally composable security.
International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making•Dec 1, 2004•0 citations