Paper 2025/1703

Updatable Signature from Lattices

Haotian Yin, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Jie Zhang
Wanxin Li
Yuji Dong
Eng Gee Lim
Dominik Wojtczak
Abstract

Updatable Signature (US) schemes allow updating signatures so that they can be verified using a new key. This updating feature is useful for key rotation in practice. Cini et al. (PKC'21) first formalised this primitive. However, their post-quantum-secure US scheme does not satisfy their security definition, i.e., without unlinkability and only bounded unforgeability. This paper aims to solve this problem by providing a new fully secure construction. First, we simplify the definition of unlinkability by a hybrid argument, and reduce the update oracle of the unforgeability experiment by assuming unlinkability. Then, we construct our US scheme from verifiable encryption and the SIS assumption. This scheme is fully unlinkable and unforgeable, but also a unique signature scheme in each epoch, allowing only one signature for each message during one epoch and rendering a stateful signer/proxy. This is sufficient for many applications.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
Updatable signatureSISGPV signature
Contact author(s)
haotian yin23 @ student xjtlu edu cn
History
2025-09-20: approved
2025-09-19: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2025/1703
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/1703,
      author = {Haotian Yin and Jie Zhang and Wanxin Li and Yuji Dong and Eng Gee Lim and Dominik Wojtczak},
      title = {Updatable Signature from Lattices},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/1703},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1703}
}
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