The certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol proposed by Mandt et al does not haVE the property of key-compromise impersonation （K-CI） resilience. An improved protocol with a simple modification of their protocol is proposed in this paper. In particular, our improved protocol is proved to be immune to the K-CI attack and at the same time possess other security properties.
A buyer-seller watermarking protocol is a combination of traditional watermarking and fingerprinting techniques. Recently, Frattolillo proposed such a watermarking protocol suitable for web context. Frattolillo’s scheme has two problems which would make it hard to implement practically. Several possible solutions to the two problems are presented in this paper.
Copy deterrence is a digital watermarking application which enables a seller to identify the buyers who obtain digital content legally but illegally redistribute it. However, in many buyer-seller watermarking protocols proposed for copy deterrence, the seller has to embed two watermarks into each copy of the digital content before it is sold. In this paper, we propose a new buyer-seller watermarking protocol in which the seller can reduce the number of the embedded watermarks from two to one. The proposed protocol also provides a more efficient solution to the unbinding problem than that of Lei et al’s scheme.
This paper proposes a method to construct new kind of non-maximal imaginary quadratic order （NIQO＊） by combining the technique of Diophantine equation and the characters of non-maximal imaginary quadratic order. It is proved that in the class group of this new kind of NIQO＊, it is very easy to design provable secure cryptosystems based on quadratic field （QF）. With the purpose to prove that this new kind of QF-based cryptosystems are easy to implement, two concrete schemes are presented, i.e., a Schnorr-like signature and an EIGamel-like encryption, by using the proposed NIQO＊. In the random oracle model, it is proved that： （1） under the assumption that the discrete logarithm problem over class groups （CL-DLP） of this new kind of NIQO＊ is intractable, the proposed signature scheme is secure against adaptive chosen-message attacks, i.e., achieving UF-CMA security; （2） under the assumption that the decisional Diffie-Hellman problem over class groups （CL-DDH） of this new kind of NIQO＊ is intractable, the enhanced encryption in this paper is secure against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks, i.e., reaching IND-CCA2 security.
