International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 02 October 2023

Paulo L. Barreto, Devin D. Reich, Marcos A. Simplicio Jr., Gustavo H. M. Zanon
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We show how to apply the BZ methodology (Blind signatures from Zero knowledge) to obtain blind signatures in the Kummer varieties defined by Montgomery curves. We also describe specially-tailored arithmetic algorithms to facilitate their efficient implementation. The result can be proved secure under appropriate assumptions, appears to resist even the ROS attack (to which most elliptic-curve blind signature schemes succumb), and is arguably one of the most efficient among those proposals that offer similar security guarantees.
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