Tightly Secure Non-Interactive Multisignatures in the Plain Public Key Model
Volume 23, Issue 3 (2012), pp. 443–460
Pub. online: 1 January 2012
Type: Research Article
Received
1 April 2011
1 April 2011
Accepted
1 March 2012
1 March 2012
Published
1 January 2012
1 January 2012
Abstract
Multisignature scheme allows a group of signers to generate a compact signature on a common document that certifies they endorsed the message. However, the existing state of the art multisignatures often suffers from the following problems: impractical key setup assumptions, loose security reductions and inefficient signature verification. In this paper, we propose a non-interactive multisignature scheme with tight security reduction in the random oracle model. Our proposed multisignatures address the above three problems by achieving: provable security in the plain public key model; tight security reduction under the standard Computational Diffieā€“Hellman (CDH) assumption and š¯’Ŗ(1) computational time for signature verification through pre-computation. Hence, our non-interactive multisignatures are of great use in routing authentication of networks.