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
An accountable authority attribute-based encryption (A-ABE) scheme is presented in this paper. The notion of accountable authority identity-based encryption (A-IBE) was first introduced by Goyal at Crypto'07. It ...An accountable authority attribute-based encryption (A-ABE) scheme is presented in this paper. The notion of accountable authority identity-based encryption (A-IBE) was first introduced by Goyal at Crypto'07. It is a novel approach to mitigate the (inherent) key escrow problem in identity-based cryptosystems. In this work, the concept of accountable authority to attribute-based encryption (ABE) setting is generalized for the first time, and then a construction is given. The scheme non-trivially integrates an A-IBE scheme proposed by Libert et al. with an ABE scheme. In our construction, a user will be identified by a pair ( id, o~), where id denotes the user' s identity and ω denotes the set of attributes associated to the user. In addition, our construction is shown to be secure under some reasonable assumptions.展开更多
Security of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a considerable challenge, because of limitation in energy, communication bandwidth and storage. ID-based cryptosystem without checking and storing certificate is a suitab...Security of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a considerable challenge, because of limitation in energy, communication bandwidth and storage. ID-based cryptosystem without checking and storing certificate is a suitable way used in WSN. But key escrow is an inherent disadvantage for traditional ID-based cryptosystem, i.e., the dishonest key generation center (KGC) can forge the signature of any node and on the other hand the node can deny the signature actually signed by him/herself. To solving this problem, we propose an ID-based ring signature scheme without trusted KGC. We also present the accurate secure proof to prove that our scheme is secure against existential forgery on adaptively chosen message and ID attacks assuming the complexity of computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem. Compared with other ring signature schemes, we think proposed scheme is more efficient.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.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60970111,60903189,60903020)the National High Technology Research and Development Programme of China(No.2009AA012418)+1 种基金the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2007CB311201)the Foundation of NLMC(No.9140C1103020803)
文摘An accountable authority attribute-based encryption (A-ABE) scheme is presented in this paper. The notion of accountable authority identity-based encryption (A-IBE) was first introduced by Goyal at Crypto'07. It is a novel approach to mitigate the (inherent) key escrow problem in identity-based cryptosystems. In this work, the concept of accountable authority to attribute-based encryption (ABE) setting is generalized for the first time, and then a construction is given. The scheme non-trivially integrates an A-IBE scheme proposed by Libert et al. with an ABE scheme. In our construction, a user will be identified by a pair ( id, o~), where id denotes the user' s identity and ω denotes the set of attributes associated to the user. In addition, our construction is shown to be secure under some reasonable assumptions.
基金the National Natural Science Foundationof China(No.60773085)
文摘Security of wireless sensor network (WSN) is a considerable challenge, because of limitation in energy, communication bandwidth and storage. ID-based cryptosystem without checking and storing certificate is a suitable way used in WSN. But key escrow is an inherent disadvantage for traditional ID-based cryptosystem, i.e., the dishonest key generation center (KGC) can forge the signature of any node and on the other hand the node can deny the signature actually signed by him/herself. To solving this problem, we propose an ID-based ring signature scheme without trusted KGC. We also present the accurate secure proof to prove that our scheme is secure against existential forgery on adaptively chosen message and ID attacks assuming the complexity of computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem. Compared with other ring signature schemes, we think proposed scheme is more efficient.