Due to the compromise of the security of the underlying system or machine stonng the key, exposure of the private key can be a devastating attack on a cryptosystem. Key insulation is an important technique to protect ...Due to the compromise of the security of the underlying system or machine stonng the key, exposure of the private key can be a devastating attack on a cryptosystem. Key insulation is an important technique to protect private keys. To deal with the private (signing) key exposure problem in identity-based signature systems, we propose an identity-based threshold key-insulated signature (IBTKIS) scheme. It strengthens the security and flexibility of existing identity-based key-insulated signature schemes. Our scheme' s security is proven in the random oracle model and rests on the hardness of the computational Diffie-Helhnan problem in groups equipped with a pairing. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first IBTKIS scheme up to now.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60970111, 61133014, 60903189, 60903020).
文摘Due to the compromise of the security of the underlying system or machine stonng the key, exposure of the private key can be a devastating attack on a cryptosystem. Key insulation is an important technique to protect private keys. To deal with the private (signing) key exposure problem in identity-based signature systems, we propose an identity-based threshold key-insulated signature (IBTKIS) scheme. It strengthens the security and flexibility of existing identity-based key-insulated signature schemes. Our scheme' s security is proven in the random oracle model and rests on the hardness of the computational Diffie-Helhnan problem in groups equipped with a pairing. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first IBTKIS scheme up to now.