Certificateless public-key signature: security model and efficient construction

  • Authors:
  • Zhenfeng Zhang;Duncan S. Wong;Jing Xu;Dengguo Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ACNS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

“Certificateless public-key cryptosystem” is a new and attractive paradigm, which avoids the inherent key escrow property in identity-based public-key cryptosystems, and does not need expensive certificates as in the public key infrastructure. A strong security model for certificateless public key encryption was established by Al-Riyami and Paterson in 2003. In this paper, we first present a security model for certificateless public-key signature schemes, and then propose an efficient construction based on bilinear pairings. The security of the proposed scheme can be proved to be equivalent to the computational Diffie-Hellman problem in the random oracle model with a tight reduction.