代理签名研究进展

Progress of Proxy Signature Research

代理签名研究的是如何用安全、可靠和高效的方法实现数字签名权利的转移。本文概述了代理签名的概念、分类和安全性,介绍了10多年来代理签名的研究情况,并对未来的发展方向作了展望。

A proxy signature is the technology which makes a potential signer delegate his signing capability in a secure, reliable and efficient means to a proxy entity, who signs a message on behalf of the original signer. In this paper, the concept, the classification and the security properties of proxy signatures are introduced. A survey on the progress of proxy signature research in the last decade is given. Some trends of the research in the area are discussed.