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Digital signatures provide authentication and non-repudiation in a public way in the sense that anyone can verify the validity of a digital signature using the corresponding public key. In this paper, we consider the issues of (1) signature privacy and (2) the corresponding public provability of signature. We propose a new digital signature variant, secret signature, which provides authentication and non-repudiation to the designated receiver only. If required, the correctness of the secret signature can be proven to the public either by the signer or the receiver. We conclude with a discussion to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed cryptographic primitive (e.g., achieving signature privacy in an efficient manner).
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Lee, B., Choo, KK.R., Yang, J., Yoo, S. (2007). Secret Signatures: How to Achieve Business Privacy Efficiently?. In: Kim, S., Yung, M., Lee, HW. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77535-5_3
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