• DocumentCode
    1066031
  • Title

    Comments on "A practical (t, n) threshold proxy signature scheme based on the RSA cryptosystem"

  • Author

    Wang, Guilin ; Bao, Feng ; Zhou, Jianying ; Deng, Robert H.

  • Author_Institution
    Infocomm Security Res., Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1309
  • Lastpage
    1311
  • Abstract
    In a (t, n) threshold proxy signature scheme, the original signer can delegate his/her signing capability to n proxy signers such that any t or more proxy signers can sign messages on behalf of the former, but t-1 or less of them cannot do the same thing. Such schemes have been suggested for use in a number of applications, particularly, in distributed computing where delegation of rights is quite common. Based on the RSA cryptosystem, [M. -S. Hwang et al. (2003) recently proposed an efficient (t, n) threshold proxy signature scheme. We identify several security weaknesses in their scheme and show that their scheme is insecure.
  • Keywords
    message authentication; public key cryptography; RSA cryptosystem; data security; digital signature; distributed computing; public key cryptosystem; security weaknesses; threshold proxy signature scheme; Data security; Digital signatures; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Power generation; Protection; Public key cryptography; Time factors; 65; Index Terms- Proxy signature; data security.; digital signature; public key cryptosystem;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-4347
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TKDE.2004.52
  • Filename
    1324638