Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, Volume 2339/2002, 319-338, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46088-8_25

The Power of RSA Inversion Oracles and the Security of Chaum’s RSA-Based Blind Signature Scheme

Mihir Bellare, Chanathip Namprempre, David Pointcheval and Michael Semanko

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Abstract

Blind signatures are the central cryptographic component of digital cash schemes. In this paper, we investigate the security of the first such scheme proposed, namely Chaum’s RSA-based blind signature scheme, in the random-oracle model. This leads us to formulate and investigate a new class of RSA-related computational problems which we call the “one-more-RSA-inversion” problems. Our main result is that two problems in this class which we call the chosen-target and known-target inversion problems, have polynomially-equivalent computational complexity. This leads to a proof of security for Chaum’s scheme in the random oracle model based on the assumed hardness of either of these problems.

Keywords  Blind digital signature schemes - digital cash - RSA

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