Designated verifier signature is a cryptographic primitive which allows a signer to convince a designated verifier of the validity of a statement but in the meanwhile prevents the verifier from transferring this conviction to any third party. In this work we present the first identity-based designated verifier signature scheme that supports non-delegatability, and prove its security in the rand...

A designated verifier signature (DVS) scheme is a special type of digital signature scheme without the property of non-repudiation. Such schemes only allow the designated verifier to validate the signer’s signature. Meanwhile, the designated verifier is not able to convince any third party of the signature’s actual signer, since he can also generate a computationally indistinguishable one compa...

Designated verifier signature (DVS) allows the signer to persuade 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 only allows the verifier to privately check the validity of the signer’s signature. In this work we observe that the unforgeability model considered in the existi...

To solve the key escrow problem in identity-based cryptosystem, Al-Riyami et al. introduced the CertificateLess Public Key Cryptography (CL-PKC). As an important cryptographic primitive, CertificateLess Designated Verifier Signature (CLDVS) scheme was studied widely. Following Al-Riyami et al. work, many certificateless Designated Verifier Signature (DVS) schemes using bilinear pairings have be...

In this study, a novel pairing based strong designated verifier signature scheme based on non-interactive zero knowledge proofs is proposed. The security of the proposal is presented by sequences of games without random oracles; furthermore, this scheme has a security proof for the property of privacy of the signer’s identity in comparison with the scheme proposed by Zhang et al. in 2007. In ad...

Multi-Designated Verifier Signature (MDVS) is a privacy-oriented signature scheme in which the signature produced can only be verified by a specific set of users. A generic MDVS scheme was proposed recently, which can be constructed from some ring signature schemes and a secure multi-party computation (SMC) protocol. In this paper, we try to remove the requirement of the costly SMC. We propose ...

The strong designated verifier ring signature scheme provides signer anonymity to protect actual signer’s identity. However, the message of the strong designated verifier ring signature may disclose some identity information related to the actual signer. To remove this flaw, this study proposes a novel strong designated verifier ring signcryption scheme. Compared with the Han et al. and Huang e...

Redactable signature schemes allow to black out predefined parts of a signed message without affecting the validity of the signature, and are therefore an important building block in privacy-enhancing cryptography. However, a second look shows, that for many practical applications, they cannot be used in their vanilla form. On the one hand, already the identity of the signer may often reveal se...

Probabilistic signature scheme has been widely used in modern electronic commerce since it could provide integrity, authenticity, and nonrepudiation. Recently, Wu and Lin proposed a novel probabilistic signature (PS) scheme using the bilinear square Diffie-Hellman (BSDH) problem. They also extended it to a universal designated verifier signature (UDVS) scheme. In this paper, we analyze the secu...