Experimenting with Server-Aided Signatures

This paper explores practical and conceptual implications of using Server-Aided Signatures (SAS). SAS is a signature method that relies on partially-trusted servers for generating public key signatures for regular users. Besides its two primary goals of 1) aiding small, resource-limited devices in computing heavyweight (normally expensive) digital signatures and 2) fast certificate revocation, SAS also offers signature causality and has some interesting features such as built-in attack detection for users and DoS resistance for servers.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: NDSS
• Authors: Xuhua Ding, Daniele Mazzocchi, Gene Tsudik
• Keywords: Computer Networks, NDSS 2002, Public Key Signatures, Server-Aided Signatures, Signature