Building better signcryption schemes with Tag-KEMs

  • Authors:
  • Tor E. Bjørstad;Alexander W. Dent

  • Affiliations:
  • The Selmer Center, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway;Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK

  • Venue:
  • PKC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Signcryption schemes aim to provide all of the advantages of simultaneously signing and encrypting a message. Recently, Dent [8, 9]and Bjørstad [4] investigated the possibility of constructing provably secure signcryption schemes using hybrid KEM-DEM techniques [7]. We build on this work by showing that more efficient insider secure hybrid signcryption schemes can be built using tag-KEMs [1]. To prove the effectiveness of this construction, we will provide several examples of secure signcryption tag-KEMs, including a brand new construction based on the Chevallier-Mames signature scheme [5] which has the tightest known security reductions for both confidentiality and unforgeability.