On the Security of Online/Offline Signatures and Multisignatures from ACISP'06

  • Authors:
  • Fagen Li;Masaaki Shirase;Tsuyoshi Takagi

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Systems Information Science, Future University-Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan 041-8655 and School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China ...;School of Systems Information Science, Future University-Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan 041-8655;School of Systems Information Science, Future University-Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan 041-8655

  • Venue:
  • CANS '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Efficient authentication in routing protocols is one of the most important problems for security of ad hoc networks. In ACISP'06, Xu, Mu, and Susilo proposed an identity-based online/offline signature scheme for authentication in the AODV protocol and then transformed this scheme to an identity-based multisignature scheme which is suitable for the DSR protocol. In this paper, we show that their schemes cannot achieve the claimed security by demonstrating a forgery attack. In this attack, an adversary can forge a valid signature on any messages. Therefore, their signature schemes cannot guarantee the security of AODV and DSR protocols. We also show that their generic construction of identity-based multisignature from identity-based online/offline signature is not secure.