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On Protocol Divertibility

Authors:
Gerrit Bleumer
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/1998/001
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Abstract: In this paper, we establish the notion of divertibility as a protocol property as opposed to the existing notion as a language property (see Okamoto, Ohta). We give a definition of protocol divertibility that applies to arbitrary 2-party protocols and is compatible with Okamoto and Ohta's definition in the case of interactive zero-knowledge proofs. Other important examples falling under the new definition are blind signature protocols. A sufficient criterion for divertibility is presented and found to be satisfied by many examples of protocols in the literature. The generality of the definition is further demonstrated by examples from protocol classes that have not been considered for divertibility before. We show diverted El-Gamal encryption and diverted Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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@misc{eprint-1998-11298,
  title={On Protocol Divertibility},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={protocols, interactive proofs, proofs of knowledge, signatures, key exchange},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/1998/001},
  note={Appeared in the THEORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY LIBRARY and has been included in the ePrint Archive. bleumer@research.att.com 10500 received Jan 8th, 1998.},
  author={Gerrit Bleumer},
  year=1998
}