On-line/off-line digital signatures
On-line/off-line digital signatures
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02254791
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发表时间:
1996-12-01
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Micali, S
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作者:
Even, S;Goldreich, O;Micali, S
A new type of signature scheme is proposed. It consists of two phases. The first phase is performed off-line, before the message to be signed is even known. The second phase is performed on-line, once the message to be signed is known, and is supposed to be very fast. A method for constructing such on-line/off-line signature schemes is presented. The method uses one-time signature schemes, which are very fast, for the on-line signing. An ordinary signature scheme is used for the off-line stage.In a practical implementation of our scheme, we use a variant of Rabin's signature scheme (based on factoring) and DES. ln the on-line phase all we use is a moderate amount of DES computation and a single modular multiplication. We stress that the costly modular exponentiation operation is performed off-line. This implementation is ideally suited for electronic wallets or smart cards.