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Efficient Invisible and Unlinkable Sanitizable Signatures

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Abstract

Sanitizable signatures allow designated parties (the sanitizers) to apply arbitrary modifications to some restricted parts of signed messages. A secure scheme should not only be unforgeable, but also protect privacy and hold both the signer and the sanitizer accountable. Two important security properties that are seemingly difficult to achieve simultaneously and efficiently are invisibility and unlinkability. While invisibility ensures that the admissible modifications are hidden from external parties, unlinkability says that sanitized signatures cannot be linked to their sources. Achieving both properties simultaneously is crucial for applications where sensitive personal data is signed with respect to data-dependent admissible modifications. The existence of an efficient construction achieving both properties was recently posed as an open question by Camenisch et al. (PKC’17). In this work, we propose a solution to this problem with a two-step construction. First, we construct (non-accountable) invisible and unlinkable sanitizable signatures from signatures on equivalence classes and other basic primitives. Second, we put forth a generic transformation using verifiable ring signatures to turn any non-accountable sanitizable signature into an accountable one while preserving all other properties. When instantiating in the generic group and random oracle model, the efficiency of our construction is comparable to that of prior constructions, while providing stronger security guarantees.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A chameleon hashing scheme allows to generate a probabilistic hash function H together with a trapdoor. With the latter, one can efficiently compute a randomness r when given any message m and hash value h such that \(h = H(m,r)\).

  2. 2.

    We remark that verifiable ring signatures can be implemented from unique [18], linkable [27], accountable [35], or traceable [21] ring signatures, so the transformation also works with these kinds of signature.

  3. 3.

    Our construction actually achieves perfect strong (non-proof-restricted) transparency.

  4. 4.

    Class-hiding was originally introduced [22] as a property of equivalence class signatures.

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Acknowledgments

This work is a result of the collaborative research project PROMISE (16KIS0763) by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). FAU authors were also supported by the German research foundation (DFG) through the collaborative research center 1223, and by the state of Bavaria at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT). NCT is a research cooperation between the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (THN).

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    Xavier Bultel

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  3. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Dominique Schröder & Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan

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Bultel, X., Lafourcade, P., Lai, R.W.F., Malavolta, G., Schröder, D., Thyagarajan, S.A.K. (2019). Efficient Invisible and Unlinkable Sanitizable Signatures. In: Lin, D., Sako, K. (eds) Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2019. PKC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17253-4_6

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