Paper 2022/1232 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2022/1232 ↗

The Abe-Okamoto Partially Blind Signature Scheme Revisited

Julia Kastner
Julian Loss
Jiayu Xu
Abstract

Partially blind signatures, an extension of ordinary blind signatures, are a primitive with wide applications in e-cash and electronic voting. One of the most efficient schemes to date is the one by Abe and Okamoto (CRYPTO 2000), whose underlying idea - the OR-proof technique - has served as the basis for several works. We point out several subtle flaws in the original proof of security, and provide a new detailed and rigorous proof, achieving similar bounds as the original work. We believe our insights on the proof strategy will find useful in the security analyses of other OR-proof-based schemes.

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Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2022-10-01: last updated
2022-09-16: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/1232
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1232,
      author = {Julia Kastner and Julian Loss and Jiayu Xu},
      title = {The Abe-Okamoto Partially Blind Signature Scheme Revisited},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1232},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1232}
}
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