IACR News item: 14 September 2021
Armando Faz-Hernández, Watson Ladd, Deepak Maram
Cryptographic keys are increasingly stored in dedicated hardware or behind software interfaces. Doing so limits access, such as permitting only signing via ECDSA. This makes using them in existing ring and group signature schemes impossible as these schemes assume the ability to access the private key for other operations. We present a Σ-protocol that uses a committed public key to verify an ECDSA or Schnorr signature on a message, without revealing the public key. We then discuss how this protocol may be used to derive ring signatures in combination with GrothKohlweiss membership proofs and other applications. This scheme has been implemented and source code is freely available.
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