Sponsored Group Signature and its Application to Privacy-preserving Guest Access in Smart Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25248v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:12:02 GMT
• Title: Sponsored Group Signature and its Application to Privacy-preserving Guest Access in Smart Environments
• Abstract summary: Group signatures are privacy preserving signature schemes in which a group member can anonymously sign messages on behalf of the group.<n>In group signature members are admitted to the group by a (trusted) group manager.<n>We propose a two-level member-join group signature that we call SPonsored Group Signature (SPGS)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Group signatures are privacy preserving signature schemes in which a group member can anonymously sign messages on behalf of the group, while providing accountability, by allowing the signature of a misbehaving group member be ``opened'' and the identity of the signer be revealed. In group signature members are admitted to the group by a (trusted) group manager. We motivate the need for a flexible mechanism in applications, such as privacy preserving access in smart environments, and propose a two-level member-join group signature that we call SPonsored Group Signature (SPGS) where group members of level 1 can ``sponsor'' new members, in level 2, to join the group. This relaxation of user join comes with additional accountability mechanisms: we require that the signature of a sponsored member can be opened to the identity of the sponsor (that is sponsor is responsible for the sponsored member), and while all signatures are anonymous, for the sponsored members, the signatures are linkable. This allows a sponsor to efficiently identify an undesirable sponsored member. We formalize SPGS scheme, define its security using a game-based approach, and give a generic construction of SPGS that uses a (dynamic) group signature scheme, a commitment scheme, and a knowledge-sound non-interactive zero knowledge proof of knowledge, and prove its security. We also give an instantiation of our construction. To show applicability of SPGS in practice, we consider the problem of providing guest access in a smart building, and introduce Anonymous Guest Access Token (AGAT) that allows a temporary guest to anonymously access (a subset of) the building resources. We show how SPGS can be used (together with an IND-CPA secure public key encryption scheme) to give a direct construction for AGAT, and show the efficiency of our guest access protocol when it is instantiated with existing schemes.

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