International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Sanitizable signature schemes are a type of malleable signatures where the signer grants

a designated third party, called the sanitizer, signing rights in the sense that the

sanitizer can modify designated parts and adapt the signature accordingly. Ateniese et al. (ESORICS 2005)

introduced this primitive and proposed five security properties, which were formalized by Brzuska et al. (PKC 2009).

Subsequently, Brzuska et al. (PKC 2010) suggested an additional security notion, called unlinkability,

which says one cannot link sanitized message-signature pairs of the same document and gave a generic

construction based on group signatures that have a certain structure.

Here, we present the first efficient instantiation of unlinkable sanitizable signatures. Our construction is

based on a novel type of signature schemes with rerandomizable keys. Intuitively, this property allows to rerandomize both the signing and the verification key independently but consistently.

This allows us to sign the message with a rerandomized key and to prove in zero-knowledge

that the derived key originates from either the signer or the sanitizer. We instantiate this generic idea with

Schnorr signatures and efficient $\\Sigma$-protocols which we convert into

non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs via the Fiat-Shamir transformation. Our construction is

at least one order of magnitude faster than the fastest known construction.