Identity-Based signcryption from identity-based cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Woomyo Lee;Jae Woo Seo;Pil Joong Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Lab, POSTECH, Republic of Korea;Information Security Lab, POSTECH, Republic of Korea;Information Security Lab, POSTECH, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • WISA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Information Security Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A signcryption scheme encrypts and signs data in a single operation which is more efficient than using an encryption scheme combined with a signature scheme. Identity-based cryptography (IBC) does not require users to pre-compute key pairs and obtain certificates for their public keys. Identity-based signcryption (IBSC) applies the idea of IBC to signcryption. IBSC involves five security notions: message confidentiality, signature non-repudiation, ciphertext anonymity, ciphertext unlinkability, and ciphertext authentication. Recently, the Pandey scheme has been proposed; the scheme uses an identity-based encryption scheme and an identity-based signature scheme. However, this scheme only achieves message confidentiality and signature non-repudiation. In this work, we improve the scheme to achieve additional security notions, ciphertext anonymity and ciphertext authentication, with no loss in efficiency.