Efficient and provably-secure certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings

Many certificateless signature schemes using bilinear pairings have been proposed. But the relative computation cost of the pairing is approximately twenty times higher than that of the scalar multiplication over elliptic curve group. In order to improve the performance we propose a certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings. With the running time being saved greatly, our scheme is more practical than the previous related schemes for practical application

On the security of pairing-free certificateless digital signature schemes using ECC

AbstractI cryptanalyze the pairing-free digital signature scheme of Islam et al. which is proven secure against “adaptive chosen message attacks”. I introduce this type of forgery to analyze their scheme. Furthermore, I comment on general security issues that should be considered when making improvements on their scheme. My security analysis is also applicable to other digital signatures designed in a similar manner

Certificateless Signature Scheme Based on Rabin Algorithm and Discrete Logarithm

Certificateless signature can effectively immue the key escrow problem in the identity-based signature scheme. But the security of the most certificateless signatures usually depends on only one mathematical hard problem, which makes the signature vulnerable when the underlying hard problem has been broken. In order to strengthen the security, in this paper, a certificateless signature whose security depends on two mathematical hard problems, discrete logarithm and factoring problems, is proposed. Then, the proposed certificateless signature can be proved secure in the random oracle, and only both of the two mathematical hard problems are solved, can the proposed signature be broken. As a consequence, the proposed certificateless signature is more secure than the previous signatures. On the other hand, with the pre-computation of the exponential modular computation, it will save more time in the signature signing phase. And compared with the other schemes of this kind, the proposed scheme is more efficient

an efficient and provably-secure certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings

Certificateless public key cryptography simplifies the complex certificate management in the traditional public key cryptography and resolves the key escrow problem in identitybased cryptography. The certificateless signature scheme is studied widely as an important primitive. Following the pioneering work done by Al-Riyami et al., many certificateless signature schemes using bilinear pairings have been proposed ever since. However, the relative computation cost of the pairing is approximately 20 times higher than that of the scalar multiplication over the elliptic curve group. To improve the performance we propose a certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings. With the running time being reduced greatly, our scheme is more practical than the previous related schemes for practical application. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; Open Funds of State Key Laboratory of Information SecurityCertificateless public key cryptography simplifies the complex certificate management in the traditional public key cryptography and resolves the key escrow problem in identitybased cryptography. The certificateless signature scheme is studied widely as an important primitive. Following the pioneering work done by Al-Riyami et al., many certificateless signature schemes using bilinear pairings have been proposed ever since. However, the relative computation cost of the pairing is approximately 20 times higher than that of the scalar multiplication over the elliptic curve group. To improve the performance we propose a certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings. With the running time being reduced greatly, our scheme is more practical than the previous related schemes for practical application. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd