Guilin Wang CSRG seminar on 26th November 2007 at 16:00 Room 245, School of Computer Science Title: Nominative Signatures: Concepts, Applications, Attacks, and Constructions Abstract: Nominative signature is a new type of digital signatures. In such a scheme, a nominator (i.e. the signer) and a nominee (i.e. a designated verifier) jointly generate and publish a signature so that only the nominee can check the validity of a nominative signature and further convince a third party to accept this fact. In this talk, we will discuss the following aspects of nominative signatures: concepts, applications, attacks, and Constructions