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Security Analysis of Some Proxy Signatures

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Security Analysis of Some Proxy Signatures
Abstract. A proxy signature scheme allows an entity to delegate his/her signing capability to another entity in such a way that the latter can sign messages on behalf of the former. Such schemes have been suggested for use in a number of applications, particularly in distributed computing where delegation of rights is quite common. Followed by the first schemes introduced by Mambo, Usuda and Okamoto in 1996, a number of new schemes and improvements have been proposed. In this paper, we present a security analysis of four such schemes newly proposed in [15, 16]. By successfully identifying several interesting forgery attacks, we show that all the four schemes are insecure. Consequently, the fully distributed proxy scheme in [11] is also insecure since it is based on the (insecure) LKK scheme [14, 15]. In addition, we point out the reasons why the security proofs provided in [15] are invalid.
Guilin Wang, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. De
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where ICISC
Authors Guilin Wang, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. Deng
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