Quotable Signatures for Authenticating Shared Quotes.

Joan Boyar, Simon Erfurth, Kim S. Larsen, and Ruben Niederhagen.
In 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (LATINCRYPT), volume 14168 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 273-292. Springer, 2023.

Quotable signature schemes are digital signature schemes with the additional property that from the signature for a message, any party can extract signatures for (allowable) quotes from the message, without knowing the secret key or interacting with the signer of the original message. Crucially, the extracted signatures are still signed with the original secret key. We define a notion of security for quotable signature schemes and construct a concrete example of a quotable signature scheme, using Merkle trees and classical digital signature schemes. The scheme is shown to be secure, with respect to the aforementioned notion of security. Additionally, we prove bounds on the complexity of the constructed scheme. Finally, concrete use cases of quotable signatures are considered, using them to combat misinformation by bolstering authentic content on social media. We consider both how quotable signatures can be used, and why using them could help mitigate the effects of fake news.

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