On concrete security treatment of signatures derived from identification

Abstract

Signature schemes that are derived from three move identification schemes such as the Fiat-Shamir, Schnorr and modified ElGamal schemes are a typical class of the most practical signature schemes. The random oracle paradigm [1, 2, 12] is useful to prove the security of such a class of signature schemes [4, 12]. This paper presents a new key technique, “ID reduction”, to show the concrete security result of this class of signature schemes under the random oracle paradigm. First, we apply this technique to the Schnorr and modified ElGamal schemes, and show the “concrete security analysis” of these schemes. We then apply it to the multi-signature schemes.