About group digital signatures

Authors

  • Adriana Cristina Enache Military Technical Academy

Keywords:

group digital signature, privacy, identification, ACJT signature, CG signature

Abstract

Group signatures try to combine security (no framing, no cheating) and privacy(anonymity, unlinkability).A group digital signature is a digital signature with enhanced privacy features that allows members of a given group to anonymously sign messages on behalf of the group, producing a group signature. However, in the case of dispute the identity of the signature's originator can be revealed by a designated entity (group manager). The present paper describes the main concepts about group signatures, along with a brief state of the art and shows a personal cryptographic library implemented in Java that includes two group signatures.

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Published

2012-09-30

How to Cite

Enache, A. C. (2012). About group digital signatures. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 4(3), 193-202. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/About_Group_Digital_Signatures