3 research outputs found
An Efficient and Provably Secure ID-Based Threshold Signcryption Scheme
Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive that performs digital
signature and public key encryption simultaneously, at a lower
computational costs and communication overheads than the
signature-then-encryption approach. Recently, two identity-based
threshold signcryption schemes[12],[26] have been
proposed by combining the concepts of identity-based threshold
signature and signcryption together. However, the formal models and
security proofs for both schemes are not considered. In this paper,
we formalize the concept of identity-based threshold signcryption
and give a new scheme based on the bilinear pairings. We prove its
confidentiality under the Decisional Bilinear Diffie-Hellman
assumption and its unforgeability under the Computational
Diffie-Hellman assumption in the random oracle model. Our scheme
turns out to be more efficient than the two previously proposed
schemes
Analysis and Improvement of Authenticatable Ring Signcryption Scheme
Ring signcryption is an anonymous signcryption which allows a user
to anonymously signcrypt a message on behalf of a set of users
including himself. In an ordinary ring signcryption scheme, even if
a user of the ring generates a signcryption, he also cannot prove
that the signcryption was produced by himself. In 2008, Zhang, Yang,
Zhu, and Zhang solve the problem by introducing an identity-based
authenticatable ring signcryption scheme (denoted as the ZYZZ
scheme). In the ZYZZ scheme, the actual signcrypter can prove that
the ciphertext is generated by himself, and the others cannot
authenticate it. However, in this paper, we show that the ZYZZ
scheme is not secure against chosen plaintext attacks. Furthermore,
we propose an improved scheme that remedies the weakness of the ZYZZ
scheme. The improved scheme has shorter ciphertext size than the
ZYZZ scheme. We then prove that the improved scheme satisfies
confidentiality,
unforgeability, anonymity and authenticatability