• DocumentCode
    3438004
  • Title

    Improvement of one escrow-free identity-based signature

  • Author

    Liu, Lihua ; Cao, Zhengjun

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math., Shanghai Maritime Univ., Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    25-27 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    602
  • Lastpage
    606
  • Abstract
    In the common identity-based cryptosystem, a trusted party called the private key generator (PKG), is responsible for generating the secret key for each user´s identity. As the PKG knows the secret key for all users, the PKG must be absolutely trustworthy. In a real world scenario, this is not desirable because a malicious PKG can impersonate any user. This is known as the key escrow problem. In EuroPKI´2009, Yuen et al proposed an escrow-free identity-based signature scheme. The scheme has to introduce six generators in the underlying group. This leads to an impressive cost. In this paper, we reduce the quantity of the involved generators as less as possible and improve it. The improved scheme only requires three generators. It saves about  cost.
  • Keywords
    Authentication; Costs; Identity-based encryption; Mathematics; Process design; Protocols; Psychology; Public key; Public key cryptography; Security; bilinear map; escrow-free identity-based signature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5850-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCINS.2010.5541850
  • Filename
    5541850