A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
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...
This paper attempts to illuminate several fundamental concepts used in the creation of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). These concepts include encryption, public key cryptograph...
Digital signatures allow us to produce documents whose integrity and authenticity, as we generated them, is verifiable by anybody who has access to our public key. Furthermore, w...
This paper introduces Hidden Identity-based Signatures (Hidden-IBS), a type of digital signatures that provide mediated signer-anonymity on top of Shamir’s Identity-based signat...