In 2003, Steinfeld et al. introduced the notion of universal designated verifier signature (UDVS), which allows a signature holder, who receives a signature from the signer, to convince a designated verifier whether he is possession of a signer’s signature; at the same time, the verifier cannot transfer such conviction to anyone else. These signatures devote to protect the receiver’s privacy, t...

We propose in this paper a new voting scheme where the voter, while receiving a receipt for his/her vote allowing further contestations, cannot use it to reveal the vote to other unspecified entities, and therefore cannot be forced to do so. The scheme is based on the concept of strong designated verifier signature scheme, and is very cheap in both computation and data communication, regarding ...

Group undeniable signatures are like ordinary group signatures except that verifying signatures needs the help of the group manager. In this paper, we propose a convertible group undeniable signature scheme in which the group manager can turn all or selective signatures, which are originally group undeniable signatures, into ordinary group signatures without compromising security of the secret ...

Designated verifier signature (DVS) allows the signer to convince a verifier the validity of a statement but prevent the verifier from transferring the conviction. Strong designated verifier signature (SDVS) is a variant of DVS, which could make it possible for a signer to convince only the designated verifier that the signature is made by the signer. Recently, many strong designated verifier s...

This paper presents a novel proxy convertible multi-authenticated encryption (multi-AE) scheme and its variant with message linkages. The proposed scheme allows two or more original signers to cooperatively delegate their signing power to an authorized proxy signer, such that the proxy signer can generate a valid authenticated ciphertext on behalf of the original signing group and only a design...

An attribute-based signature (ABS), is a cryptographic scheme where someone can sign message using any kind of predicates verified by the attributes he owns. For such scheme, it expected to be impossible for users collude if none them originally able on his own. The main advantage solution that signer remain anonymous in set fulfilling chosen predicate. It then used authentication instance. In ...

The problem of generalization of (single) designated verifier schemes to several designated verifiers was proposed by Desmedt in 2003. The paper proposes eight new Identity Based Strong Bi-Designated Verifier Signature Schemes in which the two designated verifiers may not know each other. The security and the computational efficiency of the schemes are also analyzed.

This paper shows some efficient and provably-secure convertible undeniable signature schemes (with both selective conversion and all conversion), in the standard model and discrete logarithm setting. They further satisfy unambiguity, which is traditionally required for anonymous signatures. Briefly, unambiguity means that it is hard to generate a (message, signature) pair which is valid for two...

Up to now, several non-delegatable identity-based (strong) designated verifier signature schemes using bilinear pairings are proposed. In these identity-based (strong) designated verifier signature schemes, bilinear pairings are employed either in signing and verifying steps or only in the verifying step. However, the computation cost of pairings at a security level equivalent to a 128-bit symm...

Designated verifier signatures were introduced in the middle of the 90’s by Jakobsson, Sako and Impagliazzo, and independenty patended by Chaum as private signatures. In this setting, a signature can only be verified by a unique and specific user. At Crypto’03, Desmedt suggested the problem of generalizing the designated verifier signatures. In this case, a signature should be intended to a spe...