The digital signature provides the functions of integration, authentication, and non-repudiation for the signing message. In some applications, however, the signature only needs to be verified by some specified recipients while keeping the message secret from the public. The authenticated encryption schemes can be used to achieve this purpose. To protect the recipient’s benefit in the case of a...

Undeniable signatures, introduced by Chaum and van Antwerpen, require a verifier to interact with the signer to verify a signature, and hence allow the signer to control the verifiability of his signatures. Convertible undeniable signatures allow the signer to convert undeniable signatures into ordinary signatures. In this paper we propose some extended variants of the famous DiffieHellman assu...

An identity-based (ID-based) universal designated verifier signature (ID-UDVS) scheme allows a signature holder to designate a specific verifier of the signature by using a simplified public identity such as e-mail address. In the paper, we present an efficient identity-based universal designated multi-verifiers signature (ID-UDMVS) scheme by extending a single verifier to a set of multi-verifi...

In a classic digital signature scheme, the global community is capable of verifying a signature. In a designated verifier scheme (DVS), only the designated verifier has this capability. In a classic DVS scheme the signer themselves “designates” the entity that will have the capability of verifying their signature. In a pure identity-based signature scheme a Trusted Authority is introduced, and ...

We give a generic construction for universal designated-verifier signature schemes from a large class, C, of signature schemes. The resulting schemes are efficient and have two important properties. Firstly, they are provably DV-unforgeable, non-transferable and also non-delegatable. Secondly, the signer and the designated verifier can independently choose their cryptographic settings. We also ...

The security of strong designated verifier (SDV) signature schemes has thus far been analyzed only in a two-user setting. We observe that security in a twouser setting does not necessarily imply the same in a multi-user setting for SDV signatures. Moreover, we show that existing security notions do not adequately model the security of SDV signatures even in a twouser setting. We then propose re...

In a multi-proxy signature scheme, an original signer delegates his signing power to a group of proxy signers. Then the group of proxy signers cooperatively generates a multi-proxy signature on behalf of the original signer; and any one can verify the validity of the multi-proxy signature. But, when the signed message is sensitive to the signature receiver, it is necessary to combine the concep...