• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.3629-3647
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• 2017

Certificate-based cryptography is a useful public key cryptographic primitive that combines the merits of traditional public key cryptography and identity-based cryptography. It not only solves the key escrow problem inherent in identity-based cryptography, but also simplifies the cumbersome certificate management problem in traditional public key cryptography. So far, four short certificate-based signature schemes have been proposed. However, three of them fail in achieving the existential unforgeability under adaptive chosen-message attacks and the remaining one was not constructed in the normal framework of certificate-based signature. In this paper, we put forward a new short certificate-based signature scheme. The proposed scheme is devised in the normal framework of certificate-based signature and overcomes the security weaknesses in the previous short certificate-based signature schemes. In the random oracle model, we formally prove that it achieves the existential unforgeability against adaptive chosen-message attacks. Performance comparison shows that it is efficient and practical.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.2
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• pp.307-312
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• 2002

In this paper we propose the efficient blind signature scheme based on Gap problem. We can find the short signature schemes for Weil pairing as the example of signature schemes based on Gap problem. Since short signature scheme is based on elliptic curve, our proposed signature scheme can be used in wireless PKI environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.3-15
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• 2009

The short group signature introduced by Boneh et al. is one of famous anonymous signature schemes. However, for applying it to the real applications, several restrictions should be considered. The perfect anonymity of users, which is given by group signatures, prevents service providers to provide certain services or resources. For this reason, the local linkability which reduces the anonymity of users has to be provided to the service providers. In addition, the group signature keys, which are one-sidedly assigned from a group manager, cannot support the strong exculpability of users. Hence, the short group signature has to be modified for supporting the strong exculpability. In this paper, we perform a study on the use of the short group signature by proposing a few methods for supporting those two properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.703-707
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• 2008

Nowadays, Internet becomes an essential element in our life. We can make use of numerous on-line services through Internet such as information search, on-line shopping, e-mail service, etc. But, while getting the benefits of Internet service, invasion of our privacy frequently occurs because on-line service providers tend to request excessive or unnecessary personal information. So, there have been some researches on anonymous authentication, which means that user can authenticate herself, not revealing her identity or personal information. But, most of the researches are not somewhat applicable to current authentication infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a pseudonym-based anonymous PKI with short group signature. Using our proposed scheme, we can provide anonymity with conditional traceability to current PKI.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1003-1019
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• 2019

Threshold ring signature scheme enables any t entities from N ring members to spontaneously generate a publicly verifiable t-out-of-N signature anonymously. The verifier is convinced that the signature is indeed generated by at least t users from the claimed group, but he cannot tell them apart. Threshold ring signatures are significant for ad-hoc groups such as mobile ad-hoc networks. Based on the lattice-based ring signature proposed by Melchor et al. at AFRICRYPT'13, this work presents a lattice-based threshold ring signature scheme, employing the technique of message block sharing proposed by Choi and Kim. Besides, in order to avoid the system parameter setup problems, we proposed a message processing technique called "pad-then-permute", to pre-process the message before blocking the message, thus making the threshold ring signature scheme more flexible. Our threshold ring signature scheme has several advantages: inherits the quantum immunity from the lattice structure; has considerably short signature and almost no signature size increase with the threshold value; provable to be correct, efficient, indistinguishable source hiding, and unforgeable.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.2792-2810
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• 2017

Forward-secure signature is a specific type of signature, which can mitigate the damage caused by the signing key exposure. Most of the existing forward-secure (identity-based) signature schemes can update users' secret keys at each time period, achieve the existential unforgeability, and resist against classical computer attacks. In this paper, we first revisit the framework of forward-secure identity-based signatures, and aim at supporting flexible key update at multi time period. Then we propose a post-quantum forward-secure identity-based signature scheme from lattices and use the basis delegation technique to provide flexible key update. Finally, we prove that the proposed scheme is strongly unforgeable under the short integer solution (SIS) hardness assumption in the random oracle model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.29-31
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• 1994

In digital signature schemes derived from the zero-knowledge proof techniques, some authors often claims that the length of hash-values for their schemes could be as short as 64 or 72 bits for the security level of 2$^{-64}$ or 2$^{-72}$ . This letter shows that signature schemes with such short hash values cannot achieve the security levels as stated, due to the birthday attack by the signer.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.344-351
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• 2017

An attribute based signature system is a cryptographic system where users produce signatures based on some predicate of attributes, using keys issued by one or more attribute authorities. If a private key is leaked during signature generation, the signature can be forged. Therefore, signing operation computations should be performed using secure hardware, which is called tamper resistant hardware in this paper. However, since tamper resistant hardware does not provide high performance, it cannot perform many operations requiring attribute based signatures in a short time frame. This paper proposes a new attribute based signature system using high performance general hardware and low performance tamper resistant hardware. The proposed signature scheme consists of two signature schemes within a existing attribute based signature scheme and a digital signature scheme. In the proposed scheme, although the attribute based signature is performed in insecure environments, the digital signature scheme using tamper resistant hardware guarantees the security of the signature scheme. The proposed scheme improves the performance by 11 times compared to the traditional attribute based signature scheme on a system using only tamper resistant hardware.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.621-628
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• 2011

The redactable signature scheme was introduced by Johnson and others in 2002 as a mechanism to support disclosing verifiable subdocuments of a signed document. In their paper, a redactable signature based on RSA was presented. In 2009, Nojima and others presented a redactable signature scheme based on RSA. Both schemes are very efficient in terms of storage. However, the schemes need mechanisms to share random prime numbers, which causes huge time consuming computation. Moreover, the public key in the scheme of Johnson and others is designed to be used only once. In this paper, we improve the computational efficiency of these schemes by eliminating the use of a random prime sharing mechanism while sustaining the storage efficiency of them. The size of our signature scheme is the same as that of the standard RSA signature scheme plus the size of the security parameter. In our scheme, the public key can be used multiple times, and more efficient key management than the scheme of Johnson and others is possible. We also prove that the security of our scheme is reduced to the security of the full domain RSA signature scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.21-25
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• 2003

Key exposure is the most devastating attacks in any crytographic scheme. In this paper, we investigate key exposure problem in blind signature. We then present a variant of Okamoto-Guillou-Quisquater (OGQ for short) blind signature scheme guaranteeing forward secrecy. Namely, even if current secret key is revealed, forging any signature valid in the past is impossible. Our proposed scheme exhibits an efficient key updating protocol and introduces no significant communication overhead.