NDLI: Double-authentication-preventing signatures

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Stebila, Douglas Poettering, Bertram
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Digital signatures are often used by trusted authorities to make unique bindings between a subject and a digital object; for example, certificate authorities certify a public key belongs to a domain name, and time-stamping authorities certify that a certain piece of information existed at a certain time. Traditional digital signature schemes however impose no uniqueness conditions, so a trusted authority could make multiple certifications for the same subject but different objects, be it intentionally, by accident, or following a (legal or illegal) coercion. We propose the notion of a double-authentication-preventing signature, in which a value to be signed is split into two parts: a subject and a message. If a signer ever signs two different messages for the same subject, enough information is revealed to allow anyone to compute valid signatures on behalf of the signer. This double-signature forgeability property discourages signers from misbehaving—a form of self-enforcement—and would give binding authorities like CAs some cryptographic arguments to resist legal coercion. We give a generic construction using a new type of trapdoor functions with extractability properties, which we show can be instantiated using the group of sign-agnostic quadratic residues modulo a Blum integer; we show an additional application of these new extractable trapdoor functions to standard digital signatures.
Ending Page	22
Page Count	22
Starting Page	1
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16155262
e-ISSN	16155270
Journal	International Journal of Information Security
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	16
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-12-12
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Data Encryption Management of Computing and Information Systems Coercion Operating Systems Compelled certificate creation attack Coding and Information Theory Communications Engineering, Networks Dishonest signer Self-enforcement Cryptography Computer Communication Networks Digital signatures Two-to-one trapdoor functions Double signatures
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Software

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