Cryptanalysis of a strong proxy signature scheme with proxy signer privacy protection

Shum and Wei proposed an enhancement to the Lee et al.'s strong proxy signature such that the proxy signer's identity is hidden behind an alias. We show that Shum and Wei's enhancement is insecure against the original signer's forgery. In other words, their scheme does not possess the strong unforgeability security requirement.

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