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Conference Papers

  • Unconditionally Secure Anonymous Group Authentication with an Arbiter
    Author(s)
    T. Seito, Y. Watanabe, K. Kinose, and J. Shikata
    Conference
    3rd ISEEE
    Pages
    291–296
    Publication Year
    2013
    Abstract

    In cryptographic application, there is need for protecting privacy of users besides integrity of data transmitted in a public channel. In unconditional (or information-theoretic) security setting, a model of GA-codes (Group Authentication codes) which ensures the anonymity for senders like the computationally secure group signature was proposed. In this model, it is assumed that both the sender and the receiver are mutually trusted. In this paper, we remove the assumption and newly propose a model and security definition of the GA2-code (Group Authentication codes with an Arbiter) in which a trusted arbiter is provided so that the arbiter can resolve a dispute between the sender and the receiver. This model can be considered as extension of both the GA-codes and the traditional A2-codes (Authentication codes with an Arbiter). In addition, we propose a construction which meets our security definition of GA2-codes by using polynomials over finite fields. We also consider the case that the arbiter is not always honest and call this model GA3-codes (GA-codes with protecting against arbiter's attack), which is similar to the setting of the traditional A3-codes.