The 40 thieves realize that the fortune in their cave is vanishing. A rumor says that Ali Baba has been granted access (in the form of a certificate) to the cave but they need evi...
We present a new primitive—Append-only Signatures (AOS)—with the property that any party given an AOS signature Sig[M1] on message M1 can compute Sig[M1 M2] for any message M2...
Eike Kiltz, Anton Mityagin, Saurabh Panjwani, Bara...
Motivated by privacy issues associated with dissemination of signed digital certificates, we define a new type of signature scheme called a `Universal Designated-Verifier Signatur...
Ron Steinfeld, Laurence Bull, Huaxiong Wang, Josef...
A group key agreement (GKA) protocol allows a set of users to establish a common secret via open networks. Observing that a major goal of GKAs for most applications is to establish...
Qianhong Wu, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Bo Qin, Josep Do...
For most basic cryptographic tasks, such as public key encryption, digital signatures, authentication, key exchange, and many other more sophisticated tasks, ideal functionalities...