MIP-1209

Paper Description

BibTeX entry

@incollection{MIP-1209,
author={K. Samelin, H. Poehls, J. Posegga, H. de Meer},
title={{Block-level Accountability for Transparent Sanitizable Signatures}},
institution={{Fakult{\"a}t f{\"u}r Informatik und Mathematik, Universit{\"a}t Passau}},
year={2012},
number={MIP-1209}
}

Abstract

The paradigm of treating security properties on the block-level in sanitizable signature schemes was introduced by Brzuska et al. at EuroPKI ’12. In this paper we extend their work in two respects: First, we provide a new construction which retains transparency, a stronger privacy property. In particular, we formalize the property of block-level accountability for sanitizable signatures with transparency. The original work by Brzuska et al. did not allow for transparency. We derive a provably secure construction, achieving the new notion. Second, a modification of our construction sacrifices transparency, but efficiently achieve Brzuska et al.’s stronger accountability notion also on the level of blocks. Our modified construction only requires a constant amount of signature generations to achieve block-level non-interactive
public accountability property, which is a significant improvement over Brzuska et al.’s construction from EuroPKI ’12. We have implemented our constructions and the scheme introduced by Brzuska et al. at PKC ’09 to provide a detailed performance analysis.

Paper itself

MIP-1209.pdf