Blind signatures are a cryptographic tool that is well suited to enable privacy protecting e-commerce applications. In cryptographic
frameworks however, only the major cryptographic tools like digital signatures and ciphers are provided as abstract tools.
Cryptographic protocols, especially blind signatures, are not available in those frameworks. We strongly believe that a modular
framework is necessary for all cryptographic tools to enable the immediate replacement of an algorithm in the case of its
possible breakdown. In this paper, we show how to abstract blind signatures and how to integrate them into the framework of
the Java Cryptography Architecture.
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the PhD program (Graduiertenkolleg) “Enabling
Technologies for Electronic Commerce” at Darmstadt University of Technology.