Unlinkability of sanitizable signatures

Brzuska C, Fischlin M, Lehmann A, Schröder D (2010)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Authored book, Volume of book series

Publication year: 2010

Series: Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2010

Pages Range: 444-461

Event location: Paris

ISBN: 9783642130120

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13013-7_26

Abstract

Sanitizable signatures allow a designated party, called the sanitizer, to modify parts of signed data such that the immutable parts can still be verified with respect to the original signer. Ateniese et al. (ESORICS 2005) discuss five security properties for such signature schemes: unforgeability, immutability, privacy, transparency and accountability. These notions have been formalized in a recent work by Brzuska et al. (PKC 2009), discussing also the relationships among the security notions. In addition, they prove a modification of the scheme of Ateniese et al. to be secure according to these notions. Here we discuss that a sixth property of sanitizable signature schemes may be desirable: unlinkability. Basically, this property prevents that one can link sanitized message-signature pairs of the same document, thus allowing to deduce combined information about the original document. We show that this notion implies privacy, the inability to recover the original data of sanitized parts, but is not implied by any of the other five notions. We also discuss a scheme based on group signatures meeting all six security properties. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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APA:

Brzuska, C., Fischlin, M., Lehmann, A., & Schröder, D. (2010). Unlinkability of sanitizable signatures.

MLA:

Brzuska, Chris, et al. Unlinkability of sanitizable signatures. 2010.

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