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Pairing-Free Blind Signatures from Standard Assumptions in the ROM

Authors:
Julia Kastner , ETH Zurich
Ky Nguyen , ENS Paris
Michael Reichle , ETH Zurich
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68376-3_7 (login may be required)
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Conference: CRYPTO 2024
Abstract: Blind Signatures are a useful primitive for privacy preserving applications such as electronic payments, e-voting, anonymous credentials, and more. However, existing practical blind signature schemes based on standard assumptions require either pairings or lattices. We present the first construction of a round-optimal blind signature in the random oracle model based on standard assumptions without resorting to pairings or lattices. In particular, our construction is secure under the strong RSA assumption and DDH (in pairing-free groups). For our construction, we provide a NIZK-friendly signature based on strong RSA, and efficiently instantiate a variant of Fischlin’s generic framework (CRYPTO’06). Our Blind Signature scheme has signatures of size 4.28 KB and communication cost 10.98 KB. On the way, we develop techniques that might be of independent interest. In particular, we provide efficient relaxed range- proofs for large ranges with subversion zero-knowledge and compact commitments to elements of arbitrary groups.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{crypto-2024-34140,
  title={Pairing-Free Blind Signatures from Standard Assumptions in the ROM},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-031-68376-3_7},
  author={Julia Kastner and Ky Nguyen and Michael Reichle},
  year=2024
}