A strong designated verifier signature scheme makes it possible for a signer to convince a designated verifier that she has signed a message in such a way that the designated verifier cannot transfer the signature to a third party, and no third party can even verify the validity of a designated verifier signature. We show that anyone who intercepts one signature can verify subsequent signatures...

This paper presents a new identity based strong designated verifier parallel multiproxy signature scheme. Multi-Proxy signatures allow the original signer to delegate his signing power to a group of proxy signers. In our scheme, the designated verifier can only validate proxy signatures created by a group of proxy signer.

A designated verifier signature is a special type of digital signature, which convinces a designated verifier that she has signed a message in such a way that the designated verifier cannot transfer the signature to a third party. A strong designated verifier signature scheme enhances the privacy of the signer such that no one but the designated verifier can verify the signer’s signatures. In t...

In this paper we present how multi-party designated verifier signatures can be used as generic solution to provide coercion-freeness in electronic voting schemes. We illustrate the concept of multi-party designated verifier signatures with an enhanced version of Ghodosi and Pieprzyk [GP06]’s threshold signature scheme. The proposed scheme is efficient, secure, allows distributed computations of...

In universal designated verifier signature scheme, signature holder can designate the signature to any desired designated verifier. Only the designated verifier can believe that the signature holder does have a valid publicly verifiable signature. Attribute based encryption is a novel public key primitive in cryptography and attribute based signature can provide a powerful way for users to cont...

A strong designated verifier signature scheme makes it possible for a signer to convince a designated verifier that she has signed a message in such a way that the designated verifier cannot transfer the signature to a third party, and no third party can even verify the validity of a designated verifier signature. In 2008, Zhang and Mao proposed a novel IDbased strong designated verifier signat...

Recently, several strong designated verifier signature schemes have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we first point out that such so-called strong designated verifier signature scheme is just message authentication code HMAC. Without the key property, unforgeability, for signatures, these schemes cannot enable signers to have complete controls over their signatures as demanded by...

A convertible undeniable signature is issued as an undeniable signature which can provide good privacy service in its early lifecycle. Later when necessary, it can be converted into an ordinary signature by a designated party and thereafter assures good accountability just as an ordinary digital signature does. We propose an RSA-based convertible undeniable signature where, in the stage of unde...