I'm looking for a peer reviewed protocol or algorithm that can do this, preferentially I need something based on elliptic-curves cryptography.
Alice know the main public key of Bob (B-PUB-1). Alice want to derive a new public key (B-PUB-2) from Bob's public key (B-PUB-1) in an asymmetric way. The new key correspond to a private key (B-PRIV-2) that only Bob can generate by deriving it from his original private key (B-PRIV-1). This is done with only one communication from Alice to Bob without reply. The only important use of (B-PUB-1, B-PRIV-1) is to generate several different instances of key pairs (B-PUB-2, B-PRIV-2), to communicate Alice and Bob can use also other keys.
In this way Bob own a new private key corresponding to the public key created by Alice.
Bob now could produce some signature of a message m with B-PRIV-2 verifiable with B-PUB-2.
A fundamental request is that B-PUB-2 and the signatures produced with B-PRIV-2 couldn't be related to B-PUB-1 by no one but Alice.
The purpose is not to allow Alice to be the only one able to verify the signature of the message.
At the contrary Alice will publish B-PUB-2 so everyone will be able to verify that m has a signature corresponding to B-PUB-2 but no one will be able relate this signature to B-PUB-1 and Bob.
The idea under this is that Bob trust that Alice has no interest in reveal his identity ( the fact that B-PUB-2 was derived from B-PUB-1) but Bob can't trust Alice completely.
She could try to use the generated keys to create fake signatures. So Bob can't simply ask Alice to generate a keypair, publish the B-PUB-2 and send to him the B-PRIV-2.
A sketch of the way I think algorithm could work:
- Alice choose some Random Secret
- Alice do something with that secret and Bob's public key (B-PUB-1) to create another key (B-PUB-2)
- Alice send the Random Secret to Bob with an encrypted channel, this can be done with normal public key encryption. To send the key Alice can use B-PUB-1 or a completely different Bob's public key if the use of B-PUB-1 for encryption cause security flaw.
- Bob obtain the Random Secret and do something with B-PRIV-1 to obtain B-PRIV-2
- Alice publish B-PUB-2
- Bob create a message m and sign it with B-PRIV-2
- Bob publish the message in anonymous way
- Everyone can control the signature with B-PUB-2