Identity-Based Ring Signcryption Schemes: Cryptographic Primitives for Preserving Privacy and Authenticity in the Ubiquitous World

  • Authors:
  • Xinyi Huang;Willy Susilo;Yi Mu;Futai Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Nanjing Normal University;University of Wollongong;University of Wollongong;Nanjing Normal University

  • Venue:
  • AINA '05 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new concept called an identity based ring signcryption scheme (IDRSC). We argue that this is an important cryptographic primitive that must be used to protect privacy and authenticity of a collection of users who are connected through an ad-hoc network, such as Bluetooth. We also present an efficient IDRSC scheme based on bilinear pairing. As a regular signcryption scheme, our scheme combines the functionality of signature and encryption schemes. However, the idea is to have an identity based system. In our scheme, a user can anonymously signcrypts a message on behalf of the group. We show that our scheme outperforms a traditional identity based scheme, that is obtained by a standard sign-then-encrypt mechanism, in terms of the length of the ciphertext.We also provide a formal proof of our scheme with the chosen cipher-text security under the Decisional Bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption, which is believed to be intractable.