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We introduce Multimodal Private Signature (MPS) - an anonymous signature system that offers a novel accountability feature: it allows a designated opening authority to learn some partial information op about the signer’s identity id, and nothing beyond. Such partial information can flexibly be defined as op= id (as in group signatures), or as op= 0 (like in ring signatures), or more generally, as op= Gj(id), where Gj(· ) is a certain disclosing function. Importantly, the value of op is known ...

Policy-based signatures (PBS) were proposed by Bellare and Fuchsbauer (PKC 2014) to allow an authorized member of an organization to sign a message on behalf of the organization. The user's authorization is determined by a policy managed by the organization's trusted authority, while the signature preserves the privacy of the organization's policy. Signing keys in PBS do not include user identity information and thus can be passed to others, violating the intention of employing PB...

The National Emergency Management Committee (CNSU) adopted on Sunday a decision that proposes to take 18 light constructions form the state...

The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) approved, on Monday, by a decision, the removal from the state reserves of nine light...