Title :
An Improved Efficient Secret Handshakes Scheme with Unlinkability
Author :
Gu, Jie ; Xue, Zhi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
fDate :
2/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Recently, an unlinkable secret handshakes scheme was proposed by Huang and Cao who claimed their scheme achieved affiliation-hiding, unlinkability and meanwhile was more efficient than the previous ones. However, Su, Youn and Park pointed out that the scheme is insecure due to some design flaw, respectively. In this paper, inspired by the security review of their work, we modify Huang-Cao scheme and propose an improved secret handshakes scheme with unlinkability. Our proposal not only conquers the security flaw in Huang-Cao scheme but also is more efficient than the previous schemes.
Keywords :
cryptographic protocols; public key cryptography; telecommunication security; Huang-Cao scheme; RSA; affiliation-hiding; improved efficient secret handshake scheme; secret handshake protocol; security flaw; Protocol; secret handshakes; unlinkability;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2011.122810.102229