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### Paper: Forward Security in Threshold Signature Schemes

Authors: Michel Abdalla Sara Miner Chanathip Namprempre URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2000/031 Search ePrint Search Google We consider the usage of forward security with threshold signature schemes. This means that even if more than the threshold number of players are compromised, some security remains: it is not possible to forge signatures relating to the past. In this paper, we describe the first forward-secure threshold signature schemes whose parameters (other than signing or verifying time) do not vary in length with the number of time periods in the scheme. Both are threshold versions of the Bellare-Miner forward-secure signature scheme, which is Fiat-Shamir-based. One scheme uses multiplicative secret sharing, and tolerates mobile eavesdropping adversaries. The second scheme is based on polynomial secret sharing, and we prove it forward-secure based on the security of the Bellare-Miner scheme. We then sketch modifications which would allow this scheme to tolerate malicious adversaries. Finally, we give several general constructions which add forward security to any existing threshold scheme.
##### BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2000-11375,
title={Forward Security in Threshold Signature Schemes},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={cryptographic protocols / threshold cryptography, forward security,},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2000/031},
note={ cnamprem@cs.ucsd.edu 11124 received 16 Jun 2000},
author={Michel Abdalla and Sara Miner and Chanathip Namprempre},
year=2000
}