Title
Efficient Online-friendly Two-Party ECDSA Signature
Abstract
ABSTRACTTwo-party ECDSA signatures have received much attention due to their widespread deployment in cryptocurrencies. Depending on whether or not the message is required, we could divide two-party signing into two different phases, namely, offline and online. Ideally, the online phase should be made as lightweight as possible. At the same time, the cost of the offline phase should remain similar to that of a normal signature generation. However, the existing two-party protocols of ECDSA are not optimal: either their online phase requires decryption of a ciphertext, or their offline phase needs at least two executions of multiplicative-to-additive conversion which dominates the overall complexity. This paper proposes an online-friendly two-party ECDSA with a lightweight online phase and a single multiplicative-to-additive function in the offline phase. It is constructed by a novel design of a re-sharing of the secret key and a linear sharing of the nonce. Our scheme significantly improves previous protocols based on either oblivious transfer or homomorphic encryption. We implement our scheme and show that it outperforms prior online-friendly schemes (i.e., those have lightweight online cost) by a factor of roughly 2 to 9 in both communication and computation. Furthermore, our two-party scheme could be easily extended to the 2-out-of-n threshold ECDSA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3460120.3484803
Computer and Communications Security
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
ECDSA, threshold signature, two-party signature, blockchain, zero-knowledge proof
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haiyang Xue100.68
Man Ho Au2144497.70
Xiang Xie300.34
Tsz Hon Yuen450733.86
Handong Cui500.68