Cryptanalysis of a certificateless signcryption scheme in the standard model

  • Authors:
  • Jian Weng;Guoxiang Yao;Robert H. Deng;Min-Rong Chen;Xiangxue Li

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China and Department of Computer Science, Jinan University, Guangzh ...;Department of Computer Science, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China;School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178902, Singapore;College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Certificateless signcryption is a useful primitive which simultaneously provides the functionalities of certificateless encryption and certificateless signature. Recently, Liu et al. [15] proposed a new certificateless signcryption scheme, and claimed that their scheme is provably secure without random oracles in a strengthened security model, where the malicious-but-passive KGC attack is considered. Unfortunately, by giving concrete attacks, we indicate that Liu et al. certificateless signcryption scheme is not secure in this strengthened security model.