@inproceedings{21bac79d981141f18693acb8ecb2b83e,
title = "Tightly-secure signatures from Chameleon Hash Functions",
abstract = "We give a new framework for obtaining signatures with a tight security reduction from standard hardness assumptions. Concretely, we show that any Chameleon Hash function can be transformed into a (binary) tree-based signature scheme with tight security. The transformation is in the standard model, i.e., it does not make use of any random oracle. For specific assumptions (such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman and Short Integer Solution (SIS)) we further manage to obtain a more efficient flat-tree construction. Our framework explains and generalizes most of the existing schemes as well as providing a generic means for constructing tight signature schemes based on arbitrary assumptions, which improves the standard Merkle tree transformation. Moreover, we obtain the first tightly secure signature scheme from the SIS assumption and several schemes based on Diffie-Hellman in the standard model. Some of our signature schemes can (using known techniques) be combined with Groth-Sahai proof methodology to yield tightly secure and efficient simulation-sound NIZK proofs of knowledge and CCA-secure encryption in the multi-user/-challenge setting under classical assumptions.",
keywords = "Chameleon hash, Signature, Standard model, Tight reduction",
author = "Olivier Blazy and Kakvi, {Saqib A.} and Eike Kiltz and Jiaxin Pan",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_12",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783662464465",
volume = "9020",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "256--279",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
address = "Germany",
note = "18th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2015 ; Conference date: 30-03-2015 Through 01-04-2015",
}