Two simple attacks on a blind signature scheme

Miaomiao Tian*, Youwen Zhu, Zhili Chen

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A blind signature scheme allows a user to obtain a signa-ture on a given message without revealing any information about the message to the signer. The idea of blind sig-nature was -rst introduced by Chaum at CRYPTO 1982. Blind signatures can be used in many applications, such as e-voting. Recently, Chakraborty and Mehta proposed a new blind signature scheme (Chakraborty-Mehta scheme) based on the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. They asserted that their blind signature scheme is secure. In this paper, however, we will present two simple but powerful attacks on their blind signature scheme. The at-tacks show Chakraborty-Mehta blind signature scheme is not secure.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)498-500
Number of pages3
JournalInternational Journal of Network Security
Volume16
Issue number6
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Blind signature
  • Cryptanalysis
  • Elliptic curve

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