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We describe a short signature scheme that is strongly existentially unforgeable under an adaptive chosen message attack in the standard security model. Our construction works in groups equipped with an efficient bilinear map, or, more generally, an algorithm for the Decision Diffie-Hellman problem. The security of our scheme depends on a new intractability assumption we call Strong Diffie-Hellman (SDH), by analogy to the Strong RSA assumption with which it shares many properties. Signature generation in our system is fast and the resulting signatures are as short as DSA signatures for comparable security. We give a tight reduction proving that our scheme is secure in any group in which the SDH assumption holds, without relying on the random oracle model.
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Communicated by Arjen K. Lenstra
An extended abstract entitled “Short Signatures Without Random Oracles” (Boneh and Boyen in Advances in Cryptology—EUROCRYPT 2004, LNCS, vol. 3027, pp. 56–73, 2004) appears in Eurocrypt 2004.
Dan Boneh: Supported by NSF and the Packard Foundation.
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Boneh, D., Boyen, X. Short Signatures Without Random Oracles and the SDH Assumption in Bilinear Groups. J Cryptol 21, 149–177 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-007-9005-7
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