학술논문

Scope of Security Properties of Sanitizable Signatures Revisited
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2013 Eighth International Conference on. :188-197 Sep, 2013
Subject
Computing and Processing
Public key
Privacy
Standards
Games
Educational institutions
Licenses
Language
Abstract
Sanitizable signature schemes allow for altering signed data in a signer-controlled way by a semi-trusted third party. This is contrary to standard digital signature schemes, which do not permit any modifications by any party without invalidating the signature. Due to transparency, a strong privacy notion, outsiders cannot see if the signature for a message was created by the signer or by the semi-trusted party. Accountability allows the signer to prove to outsiders if a message was original or touched by the semi-trusted party. Currently, block-level accountability requires to drop transparency. We allow for accountability for sanitizable signatures with transparency on the block-level. Additionally, we generalize the concept of block-level properties to groups. This offers a even more fine-grained control and leads to more efficient schemes. We prove that group-level definitions imply both the block-level and message-level notions. We derive a provably secure construction, achieving our enhanced notions. A further modification of our construction achieves efficient group-level non-interactive public accountability. This construction only requires a constant amount of signature generations to achieve this property. Finally, we have implemented our constructions and the scheme introduced by Brzuska et al. at PKC '09 and provide a detailed performance analysis of our reference implementations.