Paper 2006/080 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2006/080 ↗

Efficient Identity-based Signatures Secure in the Standard Model

Kenneth G. Paterson
Jacob C. N. Schuldt
Abstract

The only known construction of identity-based signatures that can be proven secure in the standard model is based on the approach of attaching certificates to non-identity-based signatures. This folklore construction method leads to schemes that are somewhat inefficient and leaves open the problem of finding more efficient direct constructions. We present the first such construction. Our scheme is obtained from a modification of Waters' recently proposed identity-based encryption scheme. It is computationally efficient and the signatures are short. The scheme's security is proven in the standard model and rests on the hardness of the computational Diffie-Hellman problem in groups equipped with a pairing.

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Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2006-04-20: last updated
2006-03-01: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/080
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/080,
      author = {Kenneth G.  Paterson and Jacob C.  N.  Schuldt},
      title = {Efficient Identity-based Signatures Secure in the Standard Model},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/080},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/080}
}
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