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On the Forgeability of Wang-Tang-Li's ID-Based Restrictive Partially Blind Signature

Authors:
Shengli Liu
Xiaofeng Chen
Fangguo Zhang
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/225
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Abstract: Restrictive partially blind signature (RPBS) plays an important role in designing secure electronic cash system. Very recently, Wang, Tang and Li proposed a new ID-based restrictive partially blind signature (ID-RPBS) and gave the security proof. In this paper, we present a cryptanalysis of the scheme and show that the signature scheme does not satisfy the property of {\bf unforgeability} as claimed. More precisely, a user can forge a valid message-signature pair $(ID, msg, {\bf info'}, \sigma')$ instead of the original one $(ID, msg, {\bf info}, \sigma)$, where {\bf info} is the original common agreed information and ${\bf info}'\neq {\bf info}$. Therefore, it will be much dangerous if Wang-Tang-Li's ID-RPBS scheme is applied to the off-line electronic cash system. For example, a bank is supposed to issue an electronic coin (or bill) of \$100 to a user, while the user can change the denomination of the coin (bill) to any value, say \$100, 000, 000, at his will.
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@misc{eprint-2007-13506,
  title={On the Forgeability of Wang-Tang-Li's ID-Based Restrictive Partially Blind Signature},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography /  Unforgeability,  restrictive partially blind signature, ID-based cryptography, electronic cash.},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/225},
  note={ liu-sl@cs.sjtu.edu.cn 13675 received 11 Jun 2007},
  author={Shengli Liu and Xiaofeng Chen and Fangguo Zhang},
  year=2007
}