SPEAKER:
Joël Alwen

TITLE:
Short and Stateless Signatures from the RSA Assumption

AUTHORS: Susan Hohenberger and Brent Waters


ABSTRACT:
We present the first signature scheme which is ''short'', stateless and secure
under the RSA assumption in the standard model. Prior short, standard model signatures 
in the RSA setting required either a strong complexity assumption such as Strong RSA 
or (recently) that the signer maintain state. A signature in our scheme is comprised 
of one element in ZN* and one integer. The public key is also short, requiring only 
the modulus N, one element of ZN*, one integer, one PRF seed and some short chameleon 
hash parameters.

To design our signature, we employ the known generic construction of fully-secure 
signatures from weakly-secure signatures and a chameleon hash. We then introduce a new 
proof technique for reasoning about weakly-secure signatures. This technique enables 
the simulator to predict a prefix of the message on which the adversary will forge and 
to use knowledge of this prefix to embed the challenge. This technique has wider 
applications beyond RSA.

We also use it to provide an entirely new analysis of the security of the Waters 
signatures: the only short, stateless signatures known to be secure under the 
Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption in the standard model. 


LINKS:
http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/283