Ring Group Signatures Form

Instructions and help about Ring Group Signatures

Hi it's Keir Finlow-Bates here, and I did say yesterday that I was going to try to explain ring signatures, so here is an analogy using no computer science terms or mathematical terms that hopefully will give you an idea of what is going on. So in this analogy we have people, who are the equivalent of public keys, and we have some blackmail information on one of those people, and that's the equivalent of a private key. So you have ten people, say, and nine of these people you have no control over whatsoever, but the tenth person - you have that specific leverage that means that they will do what you say and what you are trying to do is you are trying to prove to another party that you do have this information on one of those people, without revealing which person it actually is. That then gives you the anonymity property. So what you do is: you get the ten people to play a game of "I went to market", and it's a particular game of "I went to market" where each person is going to name tw