Indentity-based broadcast signcryption

  • Authors:
  • Fagen Li;Xiangjun Xin;Yupu Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, PR China;Department of Information and Computing Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan 450002, PR China;Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Broadcast encryption schemes allow a center to deliver encrypted data to a large set of users so that only a particular subset of privileged users can decrypt it. Most of previous works about broadcast encryption only provide confidentiality of the message. However, when a broadcast system is composed of multiple broadcasters, it raises an issue of authentication and non-repudiation of the message or broadcaster. This issue is especially important for multicasting in computer networks. In this paper, a new concept called broadcast signcryption by combining the concepts of broadcast encryption and signcryption together is proposed to resolve the authentication and non-repudiation problem in a broadcast system. We also propose an identity-based broadcast signcryption scheme using Chen and Malone-Lee's identity-based signcryption scheme.