{"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_published":"2016-04-01T00:00:00Z","date_created":"2018-12-11T11:52:54Z","user_id":"3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","issue":"2","quality_controlled":"1","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"A modular approach to constructing cryptographic protocols leads to simple designs but often inefficient instantiations. On the other hand, ad hoc constructions may yield efficient protocols at the cost of losing conceptual simplicity. We suggest a new design paradigm, structure-preserving cryptography, that provides a way to construct modular protocols with reasonable efficiency while retaining conceptual simplicity. A cryptographic scheme over a bilinear group is called structure-preserving if its public inputs and outputs consist of elements from the bilinear groups and their consistency can be verified by evaluating pairing-product equations. As structure-preserving schemes smoothly interoperate with each other, they are useful as building blocks in modular design of cryptographic applications. This paper introduces structure-preserving commitment and signature schemes over bilinear groups with several desirable properties. The commitment schemes include homomorphic, trapdoor and length-reducing commitments to group elements, and the structure-preserving signature schemes are the first ones that yield constant-size signatures on multiple group elements. A structure-preserving signature scheme is called automorphic if the public keys lie in the message space, which cannot be achieved by compressing inputs via a cryptographic hash function, as this would destroy the mathematical structure we are trying to preserve. Automorphic signatures can be used for building certification chains underlying privacy-preserving protocols. Among a vast number of applications of structure-preserving protocols, we present an efficient round-optimal blind-signature scheme and a group signature scheme with an efficient and concurrently secure protocol for enrolling new members."}],"_id":"1592","date_updated":"2021-01-12T06:51:49Z","author":[{"full_name":"Abe, Masayuki","first_name":"Masayuki","last_name":"Abe"},{"full_name":"Fuchsbauer, Georg","first_name":"Georg","id":"46B4C3EE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Fuchsbauer"},{"first_name":"Jens","full_name":"Groth, Jens","last_name":"Groth"},{"first_name":"Kristiyan","full_name":"Haralambiev, Kristiyan","last_name":"Haralambiev"},{"last_name":"Ohkubo","full_name":"Ohkubo, Miyako","first_name":"Miyako"}],"publication_status":"published","day":"01","doi":"10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7","intvolume":"        29","publisher":"Springer","title":"Structure preserving signatures and commitments to group elements","month":"04","type":"journal_article","publist_id":"5579","department":[{"_id":"KrPi"}],"status":"public","citation":{"apa":"Abe, M., Fuchsbauer, G., Groth, J., Haralambiev, K., &#38; Ohkubo, M. (2016). Structure preserving signatures and commitments to group elements. <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. Springer. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7\">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7</a>","short":"M. Abe, G. Fuchsbauer, J. Groth, K. Haralambiev, M. Ohkubo, Journal of Cryptology 29 (2016) 363–421.","chicago":"Abe, Masayuki, Georg Fuchsbauer, Jens Groth, Kristiyan Haralambiev, and Miyako Ohkubo. “Structure Preserving Signatures and Commitments to Group Elements.” <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. Springer, 2016. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7\">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7</a>.","ieee":"M. Abe, G. Fuchsbauer, J. Groth, K. Haralambiev, and M. Ohkubo, “Structure preserving signatures and commitments to group elements,” <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>, vol. 29, no. 2. Springer, pp. 363–421, 2016.","mla":"Abe, Masayuki, et al. “Structure Preserving Signatures and Commitments to Group Elements.” <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>, vol. 29, no. 2, Springer, 2016, pp. 363–421, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7\">10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7</a>.","ista":"Abe M, Fuchsbauer G, Groth J, Haralambiev K, Ohkubo M. 2016. Structure preserving signatures and commitments to group elements. Journal of Cryptology. 29(2), 363–421.","ama":"Abe M, Fuchsbauer G, Groth J, Haralambiev K, Ohkubo M. Structure preserving signatures and commitments to group elements. <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. 2016;29(2):363-421. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7\">10.1007/s00145-014-9196-7</a>"},"page":"363 - 421","oa_version":"None","year":"2016","publication":"Journal of Cryptology","volume":29,"scopus_import":1,"acknowledgement":"The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper. We also would like to express our appreciation to the program committee and the anonymous reviewers for CRYPTO 2010. The first author thanks Sherman S. M. Chow for his comment on group signatures in Sect. 7.1."}