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On Anonymity of Group Signatures

Authors:
Zhou Sujing
Dongdai Lin
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/422
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Abstract: A secure group signature is required to be anonymous, that is, given two group signatures generated by two different members on the same message or two group signatures generated by the same member on two different messages, they are indistinguishable except for the group manager. In this paper we prove the equivalence of a group signature's anonymity and its indistinguishability against chosen ciphertext attacks if we view a group signature as an encryption of member identity. Particularly, we prove ACJT's group signature is IND-CCA2 secure, so ACJT's scheme is anonymous in the strong sense. The result is an answer to an open question in literature.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2005-12755,
  title={On Anonymity of Group Signatures},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography /},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/422},
  note={CIS 2005 (International conference on Computational Intelligence and Security) zhousujing@is.iscas.ac.cn 13108 received 21 Nov 2005},
  author={Zhou Sujing and Dongdai Lin},
  year=2005
}