Paper 2002/081
Some Applications of Threshold Signature Schemes to Distributed Protocols
Vanesa Daza, Javier Herranz, and Germán Sáez
Abstract
In a threshold signature scheme, a group of players share a secret information in such a way that only those subsets with a minimum number of players can compute a valid signature. We propose methods to construct some useful and computationally secure distributed protocols from threshold signature schemes satisfying some suitable properties. Namely, we prove that any threshold signature scheme which is non-interactive can be used to construct a metering scheme. We also design a distributed key distribution scheme from any deterministic threshold signature scheme. The security of these news schemes is reduced to the security of the corresponding threshold signature schemes. Furthermore, the constructed protocols reach some desirable properties.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF PS
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- threshold signature schemesmetering schemesdistributed key distribution schemes.
- Contact author(s)
- jherranz @ mat upc es
- History
- 2002-06-25: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2002/081
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2002/081,
author = {Vanesa Daza and Javier Herranz and Germán Sáez},
title = {Some Applications of Threshold Signature Schemes to Distributed Protocols},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2002/081},
year = {2002},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2002/081}
}