• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.83-91
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• 2005

The digital signature can be verified and disavowed only with cooperation of the signer in 'undeniable signature scheme. A signed confidential document of a company can be copied and delivered to a rival company. If a conventional signature scheme is used to sign the document, it can be confirmed as authentic by verifying the signature without the signer's cooperation. However, if the company doesn't want the document to be verified as authentic by the rival company, it is recommended to use the undeniable signature scheme. Convertible undeniable signature scheme has additional property that the signer can convert undeniable signature to the ordinary one. The document signed by undeniable signature scheme that is no longer confidential can be opened to public use by converting the signature to the ordinary one. In this study, the efficient multipurpose convertible undeniable signature scheme based on El-Gamal signature scheme is proposed. The proposed scheme satisfies undeniable property and can convert undeniable signature to the ordinary one. The number of public keys and signatures are less than those of Boyar's convertible signature scheme. It also reduces the number of communication steps of the signature confirmation protocol.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1512-1532
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• 2013

A convertible undeniable signature requires a verifier to interact with the signer to verify a signature and furthermore allows the signer to convert a valid one to publicly verifiable signature. In 2007, Yuen et al. proposed a convertible undeniable signature without random oracles in pairings. However, it is recently shown that Yuen et al.'s scheme is not invisible for the standard definition of invisibility. In this paper, we propose a new improvement by using extended Euclidean algorithm that can overcome the visibility attack. The proposed scheme has been evaluated based on computation and communication complexities and the performance comparisons of Yuen et al.'s scheme and various convertible undeniable signature schemes are provided. Moreover, it has been observed that the proposed algorithm reduces the computation and communication times significantly.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1266-1273
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• 1996

The nice concept of undeniable signatures was presented by Chaum and van Antwerpen. Briefly, an undeniable signature is signature which cannot be verified withoug the help of the signer. They are therefore less personal than ordinary signatures in the sense that a signature cannot be related to the signer without his help. On the other hand, the signer can only repudiate an alleged signature by proving that it is incorrect. Boyar, Chaum, damgard and Pedersen introduce convertible undeniable signatures. In this schemes, release of a single bit string by the signer turns all of his signatures, which were originally undeniable signatures, into ordinary digital signatures. And, S.J.Kim, S.J.Park and D.H.Won propose a new kind of signature scheme, called "nominative signatures:, that is the dual scheme of undeniable signatures. nominative signatures acheieve theses objectives:Only nominee can verify the nominator(signer)' signature and if necessary, only nominee can prove to the third party that the signature is issued to him(her) and is valid. In this paper we present an efficient integrated system of nominative signatures and (convertible) undeniable signatures. i.e. we show how nominative signature scheme can be changed into a (convertible) undeniable signatures.ures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.195-201
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• 2001

D. Chaum이 제안한 Undeniable Signatures[1]을 시작으로 undeniable signature에 대한 많은 scheme이 제안되었다. 일반적인 전자 서명에서는 누구나 검증을 할 수 있는데 비해, undeniable signature를 검증하기 위해서는 서명자의 협동이 필수적이다. 한편 confirmor를 따로 지정해서 confirmor에게 서명 검증 능력을 부여할 수 있는 Designated Confirmor Signatures[4]가 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 T. Miyazaki가 제안한 RSA-Based Convertible Undeniable Signature Scheme[6]을 변형하여, Designated Confirmer Undeniable Signature System Based on RSA를 제안하고, 제안된 프로토콜을 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1670-1676
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• 2010

It is easy to reproduce and manipulate the digital contents. It's difficult to distinguish the original contents with a pirate one. A digital signature scheme is used to protect the contents author's ownership and to provide secure contents distribution. Generally, the digital contents is completed with many authors' help. It's necessary to apply a cryptographic method for protecting co-authors' rights and interests. In this paper, the biometric based convertible undeniable multi-signature scheme is proposed. In the proposed scheme, keys are generated by using a signer's biometric data. Consigning the private key to another signer is infeasible. Signers must participate in signature generation and verification stages. Our scheme also provides signature conversion protocol in which the undeniable signature is converted to the ordinary one. For applications, we show how the proposed scheme is used to protect co-authors' rights and to distribute the contents securely.