A general construction for simultaneous signing and encrypting

  • Authors:
  • John Malone-Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  • Venue:
  • IMA'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cryptography and Coding
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present a very efficient, general construction for simultaneous signing and encrypting data. Our construction uses the KEM-DEM methodology of Cramer and Shoup combined with a secure signature scheme. We describe an instantiation of our construction that provides all the functionality of a signature scheme and of an encryption scheme. This instantiation is more efficient than similar constructions proposed to-date.