On the joint security of encryption and signature, revisited

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth G. Paterson;Jacob C. N. Schuldt;Martijn Stam;Susan Thomson

  • Affiliations:
  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK;Research Center for Information Security, AIST, Japan;University of Bristol, UK;Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ASIACRYPT'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on The Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We revisit the topic of joint security for combined public key schemes, wherein a single keypair is used for both encryption and signature primitives in a secure manner. While breaking the principle of key separation, such schemes have attractive properties and are sometimes used in practice. We give a general construction for a combined public key scheme having joint security that uses IBE as a component and that works in the standard model. We provide a more efficient direct construction, also in the standard model.