Title :
Simulatability and Security of Certificateless Threshold Signatures without Random Oracles
Author :
Xiong, Hu ; Qin, Zhiguang ; Li, Fagen
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
The idea of threshold cryptography is to distribute secret information and computation among multi parties in order to prevent a single point of failure or abuse. Certificateless public key cryptography(CL-PKC) does not require certificates to guarantee the authority of public keys while avoids the inherent key escrow of identity-based cryptography(IBC). In this paper, we propose a certificateless threshold signature scheme with concrete implementation which is probably secure in the standard model. Furthermore, this scheme is proven secure against the malicious-but-passive KGC attack. To the best of authors´ knowledge, this is the first construction of certificateless threshold signature scheme that does not rely on random oracle or ideal ciphers.
Keywords :
digital signatures; public key cryptography; certificateless public key cryptography; certificateless threshold signature security; identity-based cryptography; key generator center; malicious-but-passive KGC attack; random oracle; Computational intelligence; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer security; Computer simulation; Distributed computing; Identity-based encryption; Information security; Public key; Public key cryptography;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Security, 2008. CIS '08. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3508-1
DOI :
10.1109/CIS.2008.104