Paper 2003/163 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2003/163 ↗

Multipurpose Identity-Based Signcryption : A Swiss Army Knife for Identity-Based Cryptography

Xavier Boyen
Abstract

A combined Identity-Based Signature/Encryption system with multiple security properties is presented. The scheme allows Alice to sign a message and encrypt it for Bob ("confidentiality") in such a way that the ciphertext does not reveal anything about their identities ("anonymity"); upon receipt, Bob is convinced that he is Alice's intended addressee ("authentication") but is unable to prove this to a third party ("unlinkability"); nevertheless, the decrypted message bears a signature by Alice that anyone can verify ("non-repudiation"). The construction is based on the Bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption, and proved secure in the random oracle model.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2004-02-26: last updated
2003-08-11: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/163
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/163,
      author = {Xavier Boyen},
      title = {Multipurpose Identity-Based Signcryption : A Swiss Army Knife for Identity-Based Cryptography},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/163},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/163}
}
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