A new definition of homomorphic signature for identity management in mobile cloud computing

  • Authors:
  • Zhiwei Wang;Guozi Sun;Danwei Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210003, China and State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Institute of Information Engineering, Chin ...;College of Computer, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210003, China and State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Institute of Information Engineering, Chin ...;College of Computer, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210003, China and State Key Laboratory of Information Security (Institute of Information Engineering, Chin ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In this paper, we define a new homomorphic signature for identity management in mobile cloud computing. A mobile user firstly computes a full signature on all his sensitive personal information (SPI), and stores it in a trusted third party (TTP). During the valid period of his full signature, if the user wants to call a cloud service, he should authenticate him to the cloud service provider (CSP) through TTP. In our scheme, the mobile user only needs to send a {0,1}^n vector to the access controlling server (TTP). The access controlling server who doesn@?t know the secret key can compute a partial signature on a small part of user@?s SPI, and then sends it to the CSP. We give a formal secure definition of this homomorphic signature, and construct a scheme from GHR signature. We prove that our scheme is secure under GHR signature.