Paper 2003/091 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2003/091 ↗

Sequential Aggregate Signatures from Trapdoor Permutations

Anna Lysyanskaya
Silvio Micali
Leonid Reyzin
Hovav Shacham
Abstract

An aggregate signature scheme (recently proposed by Boneh, Gentry, Lynn and Shacham) is a method for combining $n$ signatures from $n$ different signers on $n$ different messages into one signature of unit length. We propose \emph{sequential aggregate signatures}, in which the set of signers is ordered. The aggregate signature is computed by having each signer, in turn, add his signature to it. We show how to realize this in such a way that the size of the aggregate signature is independent of $n$. This makes sequential aggregate signatures a natural primitive for certificate chains, whose length can be reduced by aggregating all signatures in a chain. We give a construction based on families of certified trapdoor permutations, and show how to instantiate our scheme based on RSA.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2004-06-09: last updated
2003-05-07: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/091
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/091,
      author = {Anna Lysyanskaya and Silvio Micali and Leonid Reyzin and Hovav Shacham},
      title = {Sequential Aggregate Signatures from Trapdoor Permutations},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/091},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/091}
}
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