Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007)
An Approach to Convert Any Threshold Signature into a Threshold Group Signature
Haier International Training Center, Qingdao, China
July 30-August 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2909-7
Jia Yu, Qingdao University, China
A t-out-of-n threshold group signature is a generalization of group signature, in which only t or more members from a given group with n members can represent the group to generate a signature anonymously and the identities of the participating signers can be revealed in case of a dispute later. A new approach to convert any threshold signature into a threshold group signature is proposed in this paper. Compared with the proposal presented by Petersen, our approach has better efficiency and shorter signatures, and it does not require any secure channel among the participating signers. In particular, when the interpolation coefficients are calculated by the group manager, it has better anonymity.
Index Terms:
threshold signature, threshold group signature, threshold multisignature, anonymity, traceability
Citation:
Guowen Li, Jia Yu, Rupeng Li, Daxing Li, "An Approach to Convert Any Threshold Signature into a Threshold Group Signature," snpd, vol. 2, pp.723-726, Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2007), 2007