The invention concerns a list signature method comprising: an organization
phase whereby reliable authority defines parameters for implementing an
anonymous electronic signature; a phase which consists in registering
persons on a list of authorized members to generate a list signature,
during which each person calculates a private key, and the reliable
authority delivers to each person a certificate for membership of the
list; a phase which consists in defining a serial number; a phase wherein
a member of the list generates by means of certificate a signature
containing an element common to all the signatures issued by one single
member with one single serial number; a phase which consists in verifying
whether the signature has been generated by a member of the list and
whether the serial number has been used to generate the signature.