摘要
A non-delegatable strong designated verifier signature （NSDVS） enforces verification of a signature by a designated verifier only. The concept is useful in various commercial cryptographic applications such as copyright protection, e-voting, and e-libraries. This paper reports the shortest NSDVS so far that consists of only two elements. The scheme is inspired by an identification scheme and Cramer et al.＇s OR-proof technique where a prover can prove that he knows at least one out two secrets. It is solidified by a symmetric key based group to group encryption algorithm. Two implementations of the algorithm are reported. The scheme is provably secure with respect to its properties of unforgeability, non-transferability, privacy of signer＇s identity, and non-delegatability.
A non-delegatable strong designated verifier signature （NSDVS） enforces verification of a signature by a designated verifier only. The concept is useful in various commercial cryptographic applications such as copyright protection, e-voting, and e-libraries. This paper reports the shortest NSDVS so far that consists of only two elements. The scheme is inspired by an identification scheme and Cramer et al.＇s OR-proof technique where a prover can prove that he knows at least one out two secrets. It is solidified by a symmetric key based group to group encryption algorithm. Two implementations of the algorithm are reported. The scheme is provably secure with respect to its properties of unforgeability, non-transferability, privacy of signer＇s identity, and non-delegatability.
基金
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 61003244, 61100224）, Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China （20120171110027）.Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities （1 11gpy71）.
