Patent Application: US-69477900-A

Abstract:
a multiple use ticket generating method is disclosed which enables a recipient to obtain signatures for arbitrarily many messages after only one interaction with the signer . the method provides a blind signature in a ticket , the signature having a multiple use with a built - in expiration . then , the method develops a blinding value for the signature in a reproducible computation using a seed key substantially known only to the issuer of the ticket . the method implements a new class of signature schemes almost as efficiently as do previous one - time restrictive blind signature methods .

Description:
an efficient implementation of a many - time restrictive blind signature scheme is disclosed . it uses no hash function , is about as efficient as previous one - time restrictive blind signature methods , and its security rests on a similar assumption as that of the elgamal signature scheme . applications for the new signature scheme are untraceable offline personal tickets , e . g ., monthly season tickets , driver &# 39 ; s licenses , or coupons that can be used multiple times until they expire . a computer system for carrying out the method of the invention is a standard general purpose data processor that includes a random access memory to store the program embodiment of the invention and a central processor to execute the instructions in the program embodiment . the computer system is connected to a network to generate and circulate untraceable tickets , licenses , or coupons that can be used multiple times until they expire . a definition follows of many - time restrictive blind signatures . the formalization of restrictiveness follows ideas of brands [ b93 ], franklin and yung [ fy93 ] and pfitzmann and sadeghi [ ps99 ]. a many - time restrictive blind signature scheme consists of a security parameter k ∈ in , a signing key space x , a verifying key space y , a message space m , a signature space σ , a blinder space ω , a witness space w , and a relation make ⊂ m × w . also included is an equivalence relation on w ( equivalent witnesses v , w ∈ w are denoted v ≡ w ), more precisely , there are families of all these domains indexed by the security parameter k . if ( w , m ) ∈ make then we say that witness w makes message m . at system setup time , a particular security parameter is chosen and from then on , only one instance of each domain is used . also included are two probabilistic protocol algorithms gen , sign , a probabilistic protocol trans of two participants bob and verifier , and a deterministic algorithm verify , which are declared as follows : ( x , y )← gen ( k ) σ ← sign ( x , m ) ( m ′, σ ′)← trans ( y , m , σ , w ) acc ← verify ( y , m , σ ). all of them are efficiently computable . given a security parameter k , the key generating algorithm gen returns a pair of a private signing key x ∈ x and a public verification key y ∈ y . the algorithm sign takes as input a signing key x ∈ x and a message m ∈ m . it returns a signature σ ∈ σe the protocol trans takes as input for both bob and the verifier a verification key y , and only for bob a message m , a signature σ and a blinder ω . after the protocol , both bob and the verifier return the same message m ′ and signature σ ′. the algorithm verify takes as input a public key y , a message m ∈ m and a signature σ ∈ σ and returns a boolean value acc . if verify ( y , m , σ ) returns true then the signature σ is called valid for m with respect to public key y , or the pair ( m , σ ) is valid for y . effectiveness : for every security parameter k , every key pair ( x , y )← gen ( k ), and every message m ∈ m the algorithm sign ( x , m ) produces a valid signature σ for m . for all inputs as above , every blinder ω ∈ ω and every signature σ ∈ σ valid for m the algorithm trans ( y , m , σ , ω ) returns a valid signature σ ′ for m ′. restrictiveness with respect to make and ≡: every polynomial - time attacker who ( i ) obtains valid signatures σ i ( i = 0 . . . . n ) from the signer for respective messages m i of his ( adaptive ) choice . the choice of each message he asks to be signed may depend on all messages previously chosen and the corresponding responses by the signer . the attacker also ( ii ) comes up with a new message m ′ and signature σ ′ and ( iii ) delivers n + 1 witnesses ω 1 , ω 2 , . . . , ω n , ω ′ has only a negligible chance of achieving the following event : the signature σ ′ as valid for m ′, the witnesses ω i , ω ′ each match their messages m i , m ′ and the witness ω ′ is not equivalent to any of the witnesses ω i if any . unlinkability : let ( m , σ ), ( m ′, σ ′) be two pairs valid with respect toy . then for each internal choice r v of the verifier in trans , there is a unique blinder ω ∈ ω and a unique internal choice , ( i . e ., a sequence of random bits used by a probabilistic algorithm ) r b for bob in algorithm trans , such that the execution of trans ( y , m , σ , ω ) with internal choices r b , r v returns ( m ′, σ ′). note that previous one - time blind signature schemes use an interactive signing protocol from which the recipient gets a message and signature that he can later show to a verifier without interaction . many - time blind signature schemes use a non - interactive signing protocol from which the recipient gets a message and signature that he can later transform and thereby show to many verifiers . the proposed many - time blind signature scheme is referred to herien as “ rust ”. the standard discrete log setting is adopted . let p be a large prime , q be a large prime divisor of p − 1 . typically , p and q will be chosen about 1024 bit and 160 bit long , respectively [ o99 ]. then z p * has a unique subgroup g q of order q and since z p * is cyclic , so is g q . let g , g 1 be generators of g q that are chosen uniformly at random . the private and public key spaces are zz q and g q , respectively . the message space is m = g q *\{ 1 }, where g q * is g q except all members that disappear modulo q . the signature space is σ = g q *× zz q × zz q *, the space of blinders is ω = zz q *, the witness space is w = zzq , the making relation is and any two witnesses are equivalent , i . e ., ∀ v , w ∈ w : v ≡ w . key generation is by choosing a signing key x ∈ x uniformly at random and computing the corresponding verification key y = g x mod p . a signature ( r , s , t )∈ σ ( thus the name of the scheme ) is valid for message m ∈ m with respect to public key y if the following equation holds : verify ( y , m , σ )= g r + s = y m + 1 m ms r rt mod p ( 1 ) a pair ( m , σ ) is called terminated if t =− m mod q , otherwise it is called fresh . let the generator g , and a key pair ( x , y ) be setup as above . a signature for a given message m ∈ m is constructed as shown in fig1 : one chooses a , b ∈ r zz q uniformly at random such that a + bm ≠− 1 ( mod q ) in step ( 1 ) and computes the signature component r in step ( 2 ). if any of the values r , r − mx or ( a + bm ) rmx disappears modulo q , then the execution needs to be repeated from step ( 1 ). in step ( 3 ), the remaining signature values s , t are computed . given a verification key y and a blinder ω ∈ ω , a fresh pair ( m , ( r , s , t ))∈ m × σ of a message and a signature is transformed into another pair ( m ′, ( r ′, s ′, t ′)). the blinder ω is required such that m ω mod p ≠ 0 ( mod q ) ( see fig2 ): in step ( 1 ) through ( 5 ) bob forms the new message m ′ and the signature component r ′= m a r b g c y d such that : b = rt m + t ⁢ d ⁢ ⁢ and ⁢ ⁢ c = - a ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ + d ⁢ ms - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ - 1 m ′ 2 . the verifier does not learn any information about bob &# 39 ; s input m , ( r , s , t ), 3 . even if bob deviated from the protocol , he could not end up with some r ′ for which he has a representation with respect to m , r , g only , i . e ., d = 0 . in detail , bob chooses uniformly at random an auxiliary value α ∈ r zzq , and the verifier chooses d ∈ r zzq ( step ( 1 )). then bob computes the output message m ′= m 107 mod p in step ( 2 ). bob further computes the auxiliary values ( β , γ ) and the preliminary signature component r * in step ( 3 ). after sending m ′, r * to the verifier , he obtains in return the verifier &# 39 ; s choice d in order to compute the signature component r ′ in step ( 5 ). so does the verifier . only in the case if d or r ′ disappears modulo q must the protocol be repeated from step ( 1 ). next , bob computes the exponents a , b according to step ( 6 ) and the signature components s ′, t ′ according to step ( 7 ). he finally sends the signature components s ′, t ′ to the verifier . fig2 illustrates transforming a signature . remark 2 . the rust signature scheme ensures that signers always produce fresh pairs of messages and signatures and that only fresh pairs can be transformed . note that if t =− m mod q some quotients in trans were undefined . however , transformed pairs are always terminated , so that a verifier cannot transform a pair further . this feature of rust is not implied by restrictiveness ( definition 1 ). the protocol trans can be made non - interactive if one is willing to rely on the obscurity of some hash function h as in the standard fiat - shamir technique [ fs87 ]: instead of sending m ′, r * after step ( 3 ) and obtaining the verifiers choice d in return , bob can compute d = h ( y , m ′, r *) after step ( 3 ) by himself . after step ( 7 ), bob then sends m ′, r *, s ′, t ′ to the verifier . finally , the verifier checks in addition to the verification equation ( 1 ) whether r ′=( r * y ) h ( y , m ′, r *) g − 1 / m ′ . the witness equivalence used for the rust signature scheme is degenerate in the sense that any two witnesses are equivalent . this is no weakness of the rust signature scheme , but allows producing and transforming signatures quite efficiently . note that brands suggests to use his one - time restrictive blind signature scheme for offline e - cash [ b93 ] with the same degenerate witness equivalence ( and function make ). in offline e - cash , the price for the increased performance is computational instead of unconditional non - frameability . for many - time restrictive blind signatures , like the rust scheme , signer identification by ( more than one ) signatures is no issue , and thus framing of signers is no issue either . in order to analyze the security of a proposed many - time restrictive blind signature scheme , refer to here as rust , one needs the following two assumptions . these assumptions are not among the intensely investigated complexity theoretic assumptions like the discrete logarithm assumption [ mov97 ]. nevertheless , they also underlie for example the elgamal signature scheme and its derivatives without having been made explicit in previous work . for some natural number n ∈ in , let g i ( i ∈[ 1 , n ]) be generators of g q , and define the function f g 1 , g 2 , … ⁢ , g n ⁡ ( x 1 , x 2 , … ⁢ , x n ) = ∏ i = n n ⁢ ⁢ g i x i ⁢ mod ⁢ ⁢ p that takes arguments x =( x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x n )∈ zz q n |{( 0 , 0 , . . . , 0 )}. then the function f g 1 , g 2 , . . . , g n ( x ) mod q is an implementation of a random oracle [ br93 ]. ( note the difference of the moduli p and q !) if at all , a polynomial - time attacker a can compute valid pairs of messages and signatures with respect to a given verification key y , but then only as follows : first pick a set of n ≧ 1 generators h 1 , . . . , h n of g q , choose tuples a , b ∈ zz q n , form the message m ′= f h 1 , . . . , h n ( a ) and the signature component r ′= f h 1 , . . . h n ( b ), and finally compute the signature components s ′, t ′. without loss of generality , the attacker can be assumed to pick the generators h 1 , . . . , h n such that he cannot feasibly find a representation of 1 with respect to h 1 , . . . , h n in g q . otherwise , he could represent at least one of the generators with respect to the others , and thus he could pick a proper subset of { h 1 , . . . , h n } in the first step above , adapt the following steps accordingly and end up with the same result ( m ′, ( r ′, s ′, t ′)). a similar assumption has been used to reason about the security of elgamal signatures [ eg85 ], but those assumptions were left implicit . theorem 3 . under assumptions a1 and a2 , rust is a many - time restrictive blind signature scheme . effectiveness of sign : under assumption a1 , the probability to make a choice a , b ∈ zz q such that any of the values r , r − mx or d def −( a + bm ) r + mx disappears modulo q is negligible and so is the probability to repeat step ( 2 ) of algorithm sign . in order to verify algorithm sign ( see fig1 ), insert its output into the right hand side of verification equation ( 1 ): y m + t ⁢ m ms ⁢ r rt = ⁢ g x ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ms ⁡ ( m a ⁢ g b ) rt = ⁢ g x ⁡ ( m + m ⁢ r - mx d ) ⁢ m amr d ⁢ ( mx - r ) ⁢ m amr d ⁢ ( r - mx ) ⁢ g bmr d ⁢ ( r - mx ) = ⁢ g mx d ⁢ ( ( a + bm ) ⁢ r + mx + r - mx ) ⁢ g bmr d ⁢ ( r - mx ) = ⁢ g mrx d ⁢ ( a + bm + 1 ) + mr d ⁢ ( br - bmx ) = ⁢ g mr d ⁢ ( ax + x + br ) = ⁢ g r d ⁢ ( ar + amx + mx + bmr - ar ) = ⁢ g r d ⁢ ( d + amx - ar ) = ⁢ g r + ar d ⁢ ( mx - r ) = ⁢ g r + s ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ p ) . t = m ⁢ r - mx ( a + bm ) ⁢ r + mx ≠ m ⁡ ( - 1 ) = - m ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ q ) according to the condition a ≠ bm + 1 mod q in step ( 1 ) of fig1 . the signature components r and t do not disappear modulo q because of the loop condition in step ( 2 ). effectiveness of trans : the following verification is prepared by expressing bob &# 39 ; s signature components r ′ and s ′ in terms of bobs input and his internal choices α , d and by using the definitions of β and γ according to step ( 3 ) of fig2 : r ′ = ( r * y ) d ⁢ g - 1 m ′ = ( m α ⁢ r β ⁢ g γ ⁢ y ) d ⁢ g - 1 m ′ = m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁢ r rt m + r ⁢ d ⁢ g ms - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ ⁢ d - α ⁢ ⁢ d ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ - 1 m ′ ⁢ y d ( 2 ) s ′ = art - bms ω ⁢ ⁢ rt ⁢ r ′ = r ′ ω ⁢ ⁢ rt ⁢ ( α ⁢ ⁢ drt - rt m + t ⁢ dms ) = d ⁢ r ′ ω ⁢ ( α - ms m + t ) . ( 3 ) under assumption a1 , the probability of choosing α ∈ zz q *, d ∈ zz q *, such that r ′= 0 mod q is negligible , and so is the probability of repeating after step ( 5 ). next , insert the output m ′, ( r ′, s ′, t ′) of algorithm trans into the verification equation ( 1 ) and by inserting the expressions for m ′= m ω and r ′ according to equation ( 2 ): y m ′ + t ′ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ s ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ t ′ = ⁢ m ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ art - bms ω ⁢ ⁢ rt ⁡ ( m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁢ r rt m + t ⁢ d ⁢ g m ⁢ ⁢ s - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ ⁢ d - α ⁢ ⁢ d ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ - 1 m ′ ⁢ y d ) - r ′ ⁢ m ′ = ⁢ m ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ω ⁢ ( ad - dms m + t ) ⁡ ( m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁢ r rt m + t ⁢ d ⁢ g - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ ⁢ d ⁢ y d ) - m ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ g ( ( m ⁢ ⁢ s ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ ⁢ d - α ⁢ ⁢ d ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ - 1 m ′ ) ⁢ ( - m ′ ⁢ r ′ ) = ⁢ m ( α ⁢ ⁢ d - dms m + y ) ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁡ ( m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁢ r rt m + t ⁢ d ⁢ g - r + s m + t ⁢ d ⁢ y d ) - m ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ g ( α ⁢ ⁢ d ω - dms ω ⁡ ( m + t ) + 1 ) ⁢ r ′ = ⁢ ( m m ⁢ ⁢ s ⁢ r rt ⁢ g - ( r + s ) ⁢ y m + t ) ︸ = 1 - d ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ m + t ⁢ g r ′ + dr ′ ω ⁢ ( α - m ⁢ ⁢ s m + t ) = ⁢ g r ′ + s ″ ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ p ) . for the final rewriting use the expression ( 3 ) for s ′. according to step ( 7 ) of fig2 , bob produces terminated pairs because t ′=− m ′. this guarantees t ′≠ 0 mod q because m ′ is presumed not to disappear modulo q . the signature component r ′ does not disappear modulo q because of the loop condition in step ( 5 ). restrictiveness : first consider private key related attacks . consider a polynomial - time attacker who has obtained n ∈ in valid pairs ( m i , ( r i , s i , t i )) of messages and signatures for i = 1 , . . . , n from the signer . the signer has chosen r i = m i a i g b i mod p , and has computed the signature components s i , t i according to fig1 . the signature components r i release no information about the choices a i , b i to a polynomial - time attacker , so we need to look only at s i and t i . according to fig1 , which reveals the signer &# 39 ; s choices a i . from the t i , the attacker learns the following system ( 4 ) of n linear equations over zzq in n + 1 variables , namely b i , x for i = 1 , . . . , n : m i ( r i − m i x )= t i ( a i r i + b i m i r i + m i x ) b i m i r i t i + m i x ( t i + m i )= m i r i − a i r i t i . ( 4 ) the values x and b i are undetermined because t i , m i ≠ 0 , and therefore valid signatures release no more information about x = log g y to a polynomial - time attacker , than y itself . next , show that an attacker who has not received any valid rust signature with respect to a public key y cannot feasibly fabricate a valid signature for any message on his own ( case 0 ). an attacker who has got valid signatures for one or more messages m i is considered afterwards ( case 1 ). case 0 : by contradiction to restrictiveness ( definition 1 ), assume an attacker who has no valid pairs of messages and signatures in the first place ( n = 0 in definition 1 ), but succeeds to come up with a message m for which he has a witness ω ∈ ω that makes m , i . e ., m = g 1 w , and a valid signature σ . ( for lack of input pairs to trans , plain identifiers are used for the outputs , i . e ., no primes .) according to assumption a2 , the attacker uses 3 parameters a , c , d ∈ zz q in order to build the signature component : because m must be chosen to be g 1 w , the only elements of g q an attacker might use successfully to build r are those occurring in the verification equation ( 1 ), namely m , g , y . would he use any other independently chosen element h ∈ g q and succeed to find a valid signature , then the verification equation would reveal a representation of h with respect to m , g , y , which contradicts the discrete logarithm assumption . g r + s = y m + t m ms r rt = y m + t m ms ( m a ′ g c ′ y d ′ ) rt = y m + t g i ωms ( g 1 ωa ′ g c ′ y d ′ ) rt , since the bases g , y and g 1 are chosen independently , the only feasible way for the attacker to solve ( 5 ) is by letting the exponents of g , y and g 1 disappear . this leads to the following linear system ( 6 ) of 3 equations in 2 variables s and t , over zzq : this system can be solvable only if the corresponding 3 × 3 determinant disappears :  ω ⁢ ⁢ m ω ⁢ ⁢ a ′ ⁢ r 0 - 1 ⁢ c ′ ⁢ r r 0 d ′ ⁢ r + 1 - m  = ( ( 1 + a ′ + c ′ ⁢ m ) + d ′ ⁢ r ) ⁢ ω ⁢ ⁢ mr = 0 ( 7 ) since neither o nor m nor r may disappear modulo q , this condition ( 7 ) can be met only if ( 1 + a ′+ c ′ m )+ d ′ r = 0 . here , the factors m and r are determined only after co respective a ′, c ′, d ′ have been chosen , and by assumption a1 , neither m nor r can be predicted or coerced to any particular value . hence the only way to let the determinant ( 7 ) disappear is to let 1 + a ′+ c ′ m = d ′= 0 ( mod q ). however , protocol trans ensures with overwhelming probability that a dishonest bob ends up with a representation of r whose exponent d ′ of y is not disappearing regardless of how bob chooses r *. note that bob must provide r * before the verifier sends his d and forms the signature component r =( r * y ) d g − 1 / m in step ( 5 ). case 1 : due to the degenerate equivalence ≡ of witnesses , i . e ., any two witnesses are equivalent , restrictiveness is satisfied whenever the attacker has obtained at least one valid pair ( m , σ ) and comes up with a new pair ( m ′, σ ′) and a witness making m ′. restrictiveness requires no more , and thus nothing needs to be shown . blindness : show that for each fresh valid pair ( m , σ ), where t ≠− m ( mod q ), and each terminated valid pair ( m ′, σ ′), where t ′=− m ′ ( mod q ), of messages and rust signatures , and each choice d ∈ zz q * of the verifier in trans , there is exactly one input ω ∈ zz q * and one value α ∈ zz q * such that trans maps ( m , σ ) to ( m ′, σ ′). ( note that the value r * of the verifier &# 39 ; s view on bob in trans is a one - to - one map of the other elements d , m ′, r ′ of his view , and thus from an information theoretic viewpoint , it suffices to consider d , m ′, σ ′ as the verifier &# 39 ; s view .) in the following , all steps refer to protocol trans in fig2 . first show there is at most one pair ( α , ω ): it is immediate from step ( 2 ) that the blinder ω = log m m ′ is uniquely determined . furthermore , for each d ∈ zz q * is obtained from steps ( 7 ), ( 6 ) and ( 3 ) in turn the following expression for s ′: s ′ = art - bms ω ⁢ ⁢ rt ⁢ r ′ = α ⁢ ⁢ drt - β ⁢ ⁢ dms ω ⁢ ⁢ rt ⁢ r ′ = α ⁢ ⁢ rt - rt m + t ⁢ m ⁢ ⁢ s ω ⁢ ⁢ drt ⁢ r ′ ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ q ) . since all r , t , d , r ′, ( m + t ) are presumed not to disappear modulo q , the internal choice α of bob is uniquely determined as follows : α = ω ⁢ ⁢ s ′ dr ′ + m ⁢ ⁢ s m + t ⁢ mod ⁢ ⁢ q . ( 8 ) next show that the uniquely determined pair ( α , ω ) from above transforms a fresh valid pair ( m , σ ) of message and signature into a terminated valid pair ( m ′, σ ′). since ( m , σ )=( m , ( r , s , t )) is presumed a fresh valid pair , we can rewrite the verification equation ( 1 ) for ( m , ( r , s , t )) as follows : g r + s = pk m + t m ms r st r rt = g r + s pk −( m + t ) m − ms , where t ≠− m ( mod q ). ( 9 ) furthermore , the unique α in equation ( 8 ) also determines a unique γ in step ( 3 ), namely : γ = ⁢ m ⁢ ⁢ s - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ - α ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ = ⁢ m ⁢ ⁢ s - ω ⁡ ( r + s ) ⁢ m ′ ω ⁡ ( m + t ) ⁢ m ′ - ( s ′ d ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ + m ⁢ ⁢ s ω ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁡ ( m + t ) ) = ⁢ - ( r + s m + t + s ′ d ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ) ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ q ) . next , evaluate r ′ according to step ( 3 ) by inserting r rt from equation ( 9 ), α from equation ( 8 ), β = rt /( m + t ) from step ( 3 ) and γ from equation ( 10 ): r ′ = ⁢ ( r * p ⁢ ⁢ k ) d ⁢ g - 1 m ′ = ⁢ ( m α ⁢ r β ⁢ g γ ⁢ p ⁢ ⁢ k ) d ⁢ g - 1 m ′ = ⁢ m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁢ r rt m + t ⁢ d ⁢ g γ ⁢ ⁢ d - 1 m ′ ⁢ p ⁢ ⁢ k d = ⁢ m α ⁢ ⁢ d ⁡ ( g r + s ⁢ p ⁢ ⁢ k - ( m + t ) ⁢ m - m ⁢ ⁢ s ) d m + t ⁢ g γ ⁢ ⁢ d - 1 m ′ ⁢ p ⁢ ⁢ k d = ⁢ m ( ω ⁢ ⁢ s ′ dr ′ + m ⁢ ⁢ s m + t ) ⁢ d ⁡ ( g r + s ⁢ m - m ⁢ ⁢ s ) d m + t ⁢ g - ( r + s m + t + s ′ d ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ) ⁢ d - 1 m ′ = ⁢ m ω ⁢ ⁢ s ′ r ′ ⁢ g s ′ m ′ ⁢ r ′ - 1 m ′ = ⁢ m ′ s ′ r ′ ⁢ g - s ′ + r ′ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ p ) . ( 11 ) finally , check that the values m ′, r ′, s ′, t ′ satisfy the verification equation ( 1 ) if r ′ is inserted from ( 11 ) and use t ′=− m ′ mod q from step ( 7 ): p ⁢ ⁢ k m ′ + t ′ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ s ′ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ ⁢ r ′ ⁢ t ′ = p ⁢ ⁢ k m ′ - m ′ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ ⁢ m ′ ⁢ s ′ ⁡ ( m ′ ⁢ s ′ r ′ ⁢ g - s ′ + r ′ m ′ ⁢ r ′ ) - r ′ ⁢ m ′ = g r ′ + s ′ ⁢ ⁢ ( mod ⁢ ⁢ p ) . a restrictive blind signature scheme has been presented that allows a recipient to obtain signatures for arbitrarily many ( correctly formed ) messages after only one interaction with the signer . signing , transforming and verifying costs two , six , and six full length modular exponentiations , respectively . for transforming and verifying , count the exponentiations of bob and of the verifier in trans , respectively . this compares to two , five and four modular exponentiations of the signer and recipient during the signing protocol and verification of the one - time restrictive blind signature protocol proposed by chaum , pedersen [ cp92 ] and later by brands [ b93 ]. various illustrative examples of the invention have been described in detail . in addition , however , many modifications and changes can be made to these examples without departing from the nature and spirit of the invention . 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