Novel designated ownership transfer with grouping proof

It is critical to minimize the cargo theft during transport while ensuring the integrity of the entire cargo loads or to transfer the ownership of a tagged item to another owner in the supply chain management. However, no such protocol or mechanism is proposed to achieve both of the above requirements. In this paper, we propose novel designated ownership transfer with grouping proof, which simultaneously generates grouping proofs and authenticates the consistency between the receipt proof and pick proof while ensuring the ownership of the cargo is being transferred to the new designated owner in one attempt. In addition, our proposed scheme can have not only robustness against attacks (such as replay attacks, denial of service attacks, denial of proof etc.), but also security features (such as forward/backward secrecy and message integrity).