International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

CryptoDB

Knowledge-Binding Commitments with Applications in Time-Stamping (Full Version)

Authors:
Ahto Buldas
Sven Laur
Download:
URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/071
Search ePrint
Search Google
Abstract: We prove in a non-black-box way that every bounded list and set commitment scheme is knowledge-binding. This is a new and rather strong security condition, which makes the security definitions for time-stamping much more natural compared to the previous definitions, which assume unpredictability of adversaries. As a direct consequence, list and set commitment schemes with partial opening property are sufficient for secure time-stamping if the number of elements has an explicit upper bound N. On the other hand, white-box reductions are in a sense strictly weaker than black-box reductions. Therefore, we also extend and generalize the previously known reductions. The corresponding new reductions are Theta(sqrt(N)) times more efficient, which is important for global-scale time-stamping schemes where N is very large.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2007-13353,
  title={Knowledge-Binding Commitments with Applications in Time-Stamping (Full Version)},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / bit commitment, white-box reductions, time-stamping},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/071},
  note={A shortened version of this work will be published in PKC2007. ahto.buldas@ut.ee 13567 received 23 Feb 2007},
  author={Ahto Buldas and Sven Laur},
  year=2007
}