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In this paper, we propose a new signature scheme based on a punctured Reed--Muller (RM) code with random insertion, which improves the Goppa code-based signature scheme developed by Courtois, Finiasz, and Sendrier (CFS). The CFS signature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Wijik Lee , Young-Sik Kim , Jong-Seon No

In this work, we exploit a serious security flaw in a code-based signature scheme from a 2019 work by Liu, Yang, Han and Wang. They adapt the McEliece cryptosystem to obtain a new scheme and, on top of this, they design an efficient digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Giuseppe D'Alconzo

Ensuring the correctness of distributed system implementations remains a challenging and largely unaddressed problem. In this paper we present a protocol that can be used to certify the safety of consensus implementations. Our proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Aurojit Panda

Quantum signature (QS) is used to authenticate the identity of the originator, ensure data integrity and provide non-repudiation service with unconditional security. Depending on whether a trusted third party named arbitrator is involved or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qin Li , Wai Hong Chan , Chunhui Wu , Zhonghua Wen

Identity verification based on authenticity assessment of a handwritten signature is an important issue in biometrics. There are many effective methods for signature verification taking into account dynamics of a signing process. Methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Krzysztof Cpalka , Marcin Zalasinski , Leszek Rutkowski

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

We present a method to secure the complete path between a server and the local human user at a network node. This is useful for scenarios like internet banking, electronic signatures, or online voting. Protection of input authenticity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hanno Langweg , Tommy Kristiansen

Steganography is the task of concealing a message within a medium such that the presence of the hidden message cannot be detected. Though the prospect of steganography is conceivably interesting in many contexts, and though work has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Aubrey Alston

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for verification of on-line signatures based on user dependent feature selection and symbolic representation. Unlike other signature verification methods, which work with same features for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 D. S. Guru , K. S. Manjunatha , S. Manjunath

Signatures present on corporate documents are often used in investigations of relationships between persons of interest, and prior research into the task of offline signature verification has evaluated a wide range of methods on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Nikhil Woodruff , Amir Enshaei , Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan

Aggregate signatures allow anyone to combine different signatures signed by different signers on different messages into a single short signature. An ideal aggregate signature scheme is an identity-based aggregate signature (IBAS) scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Kwangsu Lee , Dong Hoon Lee

We examine the conditions under which a signed graph contains an edge or a vertex that is contained in a unique negative circle or a unique positive circle. For an edge in a unique signed circle, the positive and negative case require the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Richard Behr

Adaptor signatures can be viewed as a generalized form of standard digital signature schemes by linking message authentication to the disclosure of a secret value. As a recent cryptographic primitive, they have become essential for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Farzin Renan , Péter Kutas

In this paper, we present an improved version of the digital signature scheme proposed by Sharafi and Daghigh based on Module-LWE and Module-SIS problems. Our proposed signature scheme has a notably higher security level and smaller…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Huda Naeem Hleeb Al-Jabbari , Abbas Maarefparvar

In this paper we consider a post-quantum digital signature scheme based on low-density generator matrix codes and propose efficient algorithmic solutions for its implementation. We also review all known attacks against this scheme and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Marco Baldi , Alessandro Barenghi , Franco Chiaraluce , Gerardo Pelosi , Joachim Rosenthal , Paolo Santini , Davide Schipani

Formal verification entails testing software to ensure it operates as specified. Smart contracts are self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement directly written into lines of code. They run on blockchain platforms and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Rene Davila , Everardo Barcenas , Rocio Aldeco-Perez

Biometric authentication by means of handwritten signatures is a challenging pattern recognition task, which aims to infer a writer model from only a handful of genuine signatures. In order to make it more difficult for a forger to attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Paul Maergner , Vinaychandran Pondenkandath , Michele Alberti , Marcus Liwicki , Kaspar Riesen , Rolf Ingold , Andreas Fischer

Digital signatures are crucial for securing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) transactions. Like most forms of digital currencies, CBDC solutions rely on signatures for transaction authenticity and integrity, leading to major issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mostafa Abdelrahman , Filip Rezabek , Lars Hupel , Kilian Glas , Georg Carle

In this paper, we describe an attack against one of the Oblivious-Transfer-based blind signatures scheme, proposed in [1]. An attacker with a primitive capability of producing specific-range random numbers, while exhibiting a partial MITM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Stylianos Basagiannis , Panagiotis Katsaros , Andrew Pombortsis

One of the essential security services needed to safeguard online transactions is fair exchange. In fair exchange protocols two parties can exchange their signatures in a fair manner, so that either each party gain the other's signature or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-22 Jamal A. Hussein , Mumtaz A. AlMukhtar