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Ring signature is a kind of group-oriented signature. It allows a member of a group to sign messages on behalf of the group without revealing his/her identity. Certificateless public key cryptography was first introduced by Al-Riyami and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Lei Zhang , Futai Zhang , Wei Wu

In this paper, an efficient arbitrated quantum signature scheme is proposed by combining quantum cryptographic techniques and some ideas in classical cryptography. In the presented scheme, the signatory and the receiver can share a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Qin Li , Chengqing Li , Chunhui Wu , Dongyang Long , Changji Wang

Due to potential capability of providing unconditional security, arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) schemes, whose implementation depends on the participation of a trusted third party, received intense attention in the past decade.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Qin Li , Chengqing Li , Zhonghua Wen , Weizhong Zhao , W. H. Chan

In 2001, Rivest et al. firstly introduced the concept of ring signatures. A ring signature is a simplified group signature without any manager. It protects the anonymity of a signer. The first scheme proposed by Rivest et al. was based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Amit K Awasthi , Sunder Lal

Quantum digital signatures (QDS), generating correlated bit strings among three remote parties for signatures through quantum law, can guarantee non-repudiation, authenticity, and integrity of messages. Recently, one-time universal hashing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Bing-Hong Li , Yuan-Mei Xie , Xiao-Yu Cao , Chen-Long Li , Yao Fu , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Cryptography with quantum states exhibits a number of surprising and counterintuitive features. In a 2002 work, Barnum et al. argue that these features imply that digital signatures for quantum states are impossible (Barnum et al., FOCS…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Gorjan Alagic , Tommaso Gagliardoni , Christian Majenz

Digital signatures are one of the simplest cryptographic building blocks that provide appealing security characteristics such as authenticity, unforgeability, and undeniability. In 1984, Shamir developed the first Identity-based signature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Tapaswini Mohanty , Vikas Srivastava , Sumit Kumar Debnath , Debasish Roy , Kouichi Sakurai , Sourav Mukhopadhyay

Quantum digital signatures ensure unforgeable message authenticity and integrity using quantum principles, offering unconditional security against both classical and quantum attacks. They are crucial for secure communication in high-stakes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Debnath Ghosh , Soumit Roy , Prithwi Bagchi , Indranil Chakrabarty , Ashok Kumar Das

Cryptography promises four information security objectives, namely, confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation, to support trillions of transactions annually in the digital economy. Efficient digital signatures, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Hua-Lei Yin , Yao Fu , Chen-Long Li , Chen-Xun Weng , Bing-Hong Li , Jie Gu , Yu-Shuo Lu , Shan Huang , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum mechanics provides cryptographic primitives whose security is grounded in hardness assumptions independent of those underlying classical cryptography. However, existing proposals require low-noise quantum communication and…

Digital signature scheme is commonly employed in modern electronic commerce and quantum digital signature (QDS) offers the information-theoretical security by the laws of quantum mechanics against attackers with unreasonable computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Xin Yao , Xu Liu , Rong Xue , Heqing Wang , Hao Li , Zhen Wang , Lixing You , Yidong Huang , Wei Zhang

Digital signatures are fundamental cryptographic primitives that ensure the authenticity and integrity of digital documents. In the post-quantum era, classical public key-based signature schemes become vulnerable to brute-force and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Satish Kumar , Md. Arzoo Jamal

qDSA is a high-speed, high-security signature scheme that facilitates implementations with a very small memory footprint, a crucial requirement for embedded systems and IoT devices, and that uses the same public keys as modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Joost Renes , Benjamin Smith

Blind signatures were first introduced by David Chaum. They allow a user to have a message signed by a signer without revealing the message itself. This property is particularly useful in applications such as electronic voting and digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aditya Bhardwaj , Péter Kutas

Nowadays, predominant asymmetric cryptographic schemes are considered to be secure because discrete logarithms are believed to be hard to be computed. The algorithm of Shor can effectively compute discrete logarithms, i.e. it can brake such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Johanna Barzen , Frank Leymann

Strongly unforgeable signature schemes provide a more stringent security guarantee than the standard existential unforgeability. It requires that not only forging a signature on a new message is hard, it is infeasible as well to produce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 Edward Eaton , Fang Song

Until now, there have been developed many arbitrated quantum signature schemes implemented with a help of a trusted third party. In order to guarantee the unconditional security, most of them take advantage of the optimal quantum one-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jeong Woon Choi , Ku-Young Chang , Dowon Hong

This work revisits the security of classical signatures and ring signatures in a quantum world. For (ordinary) signatures, we focus on the arguably preferable security notion of blind-unforgeability recently proposed by Alagic et al.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Rohit Chatterjee , Kai-Min Chung , Xiao Liang , Giulio Malavolta

A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a digital message or document. For signing quantum messages, some arbitrated quantum signature schemes have being proposed. However, in the existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Xiangfu Zou , Daowen Qiu

We propose a quantum authentication and digital signature protocol whose security is founded on the Quantum Merlin Arthur~(QMA)-completeness of the consistency of local density matrices. The protocol functions as a true public-key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Le-Ran Liu , Min-Quan He , Dan-Bo Zhang , Z. D. Wang