Post-Quantum Secure Ring Signatures for Security and Privacy in the Cybertwin-Driven 6G

Cybertwin-driven-based network architecture for sixth generation (6G) is a new cloud-centric network architecture, which was put forward to address challenges of 6G, such as scalability, security, mobility, and availability. As more and more users’ data are obtained and converted into other digital asset by the cybertwin, relevant techniques of data management to enhance privacy and security becomes a key challenge for Cybertwin-driven 6G. The double authentication preventing ring signature (DAPRS) is a cryptographic primitive that meets requirements of authenticity, anonymity of users’ private data, and linkability of users’ misbehavior, so it is suitable for monitoring behaviors of risky users. In this article, we propose a post-quantum secure ring signature to enhance security and privacy in Cybertwin-driven 6G (PRSG). In the PRSG, we first put forward an accumulator based on a chameleon hash function that allows to efficiently prove knowledge of an accumulated value. Then, we construct a DAPRS based on the accumulator and the zero-knowledge argument of knowledge. Finally, we present how to use the DAPRS to build a secure and efficient privacy-preserving scheme in the Cybertwin-driven 6G. Security proof shows that this scheme achieves anonymity, unforgeability, as well as double signature extractability. Also, we make some security analysis and performance evaluation to demonstrate that the PRSG has low communication complexity, high performance, and privacy preservation in the cybertwin-driven 6G.