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Forgery attacks on Kang et al.’s identity-based strong designated verifier signature scheme and its improvement with security proof

✍ Scribed by Ji-Seon Lee; Jik Hyun Chang; Dong Hoon Lee


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
199 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0045-7906

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✦ Synopsis


Recently, Kang et al. proposed a new identity-based strong designated verifier signature scheme (ID-SDVS) and identity-based designated verifier proxy signature scheme (ID-DVPS). They claimed that their schemes are unforgeable. However, we found out that their schemes are universally forgeable in the sense that anyone can forge valid ID-SDVS and ID-DVPS on an arbitrary message without the knowledge of the secret key of either the signer or the designated verifier. Finally, we propose an improved ID-SDVS which is unforgeable. We give formal security proof of universal unforgeability of our scheme. We also give an improved ID-DVPS.