Leakage of the private key has become a serious problem of menacing the cryptosystem security. To reduce the underlying danger induced by private key leakage, Dodis et al.(2003) proposed the first key-insulated signature scheme. To handle issues concerning the private key leakage in certificateless signature schemes, we devise the first certificateless key-insulated signature scheme. Our scheme applies the key-insulated mechanism to certificateless cryptography, one with neither certificate nor key escrow. We incorporate Waters (2005)’s signature scheme, Paterson and Schuldt (2006)’s identity-based signature scheme, and Liu et al.(2007)’s certificateless signature scheme to obtain a certificateless key-insulated signature scheme. Our scheme has two desirable properties. First, its security can be proved under the non-pairing-based generalized bilinear Diffie-Hellman (NGBDH) conjecture, without utilizing the random oracle model; second, it solves the key escrow problem in identity-based key-insulated signatures.
Zhong-mei WANXue-jia LAIJian WENGSheng-li LIUYu LONGXuan HONG
A proxy signature allows an entity, called original signer, to delegate its signing power to another entity, called proxy signer, to sign messages on its behalf. Proxy signatures have many practical applications and are very important cryptographic protocol. In this paper, we propose an efficient proxy signature scheme from bilinear pairings. We prove it secure in the random oracle model and analyze computation cost of our scheme. Our scheme satisfies all the properties required for proxy signatures.
