Convertible Authenticated Encryption Scheme Without Using Conventional One-Way Function

  • Authors:
  • Hung-Yu Chien

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, e-mail: redfish6@ms45.hinet.net

  • Venue:
  • Informatica
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An authenticated encryption allows the designated recipient to verify the authenticity while recovering the message. To protect the recipient's benefit in case of a later dispute, a convertible authenticated encryption scheme allows the recipient to convert the authenticated encryption into an ordinary signature so that it becomes a publicly verifiable. This paper shows a universal forgery attack on Araki et al.'s convertible authenticated encryption scheme, and proposes a new convertible authenticated encryption scheme. Without using any conventional one-way function, the proposed scheme simplifies its security assumption on only a public hard problem - the discrete logarithm problem.