IACR News item: 11 July 2025
Ahmet Ramazan Ağırtaş, Emircan Çelik, Oğuz Yayla
While digital signatures serve to confirm message integrity
and the identity of the signer, the inherent link between the public key
and the signer’s identity can pose challenges in anonymized networks or
applications focused on preserving privacy. Signatures with randomiz-
able keys aim to disentangle the signer’s identity from their public key,
thus preserving the signature’s validity. This approach ensures that the
signature, even with a randomized key, maintains its verifiability without
linking it to the signer’s identity.
Although signatures with randomizable keys effectively maintain privacy,
additional structural improvements are necessary in specialized signature
schemes for complex cryptographic frameworks. Threshold structure-
preserving signatures offer a way to construct modular protocols while
retaining the benefits of structure-preserving properties. Thus, the ran-
domizable key version of it is essential for a wide range of applications,
making it the foundation of this work. In this study, signatures with ran-
domizable key principles combined with threshold structure-preserving
signatures to build a strong cryptographic base for privacy-preserving
applications. This foundation makes sure that signatures are valid while
also being modular and unlinkable.
An earlier version of this work appeared in the 22nd International Con-
ference on Security and Cryptography(SECRYPT 2025) [6]; the present
article extends that study by adding the formal security proofs of the
introduced protocols.
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