Title :
Digital multisignature with distinguished signing authorities
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Networking, Missouri Univ., Kansas City, MO, USA
fDate :
2/18/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The digital multisignature is signed by group members with knowledge of multiple private keys. Two ElGamal-type efficient multisignature schemes that can combine all individual signatures into a multisignature without any data expansion have previously been proposed. However, since in these two schemes all group members sign the same message, these schemes are called multisignature schemes with undistinguished signing authorities. The authors now modify these schemes and convert them to a multisignature scheme with distinguished signing authorities. Each group member is responsible for preparing and signing a partial group message
Keywords :
cryptography; ElGamal-type scheme modification; digital multisignature; distinguished signing authorities; group members; multiple private keys;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990166