Document Type
Journal Article
RIS ID
33899
Citation
Yuen, Tsz Hon; Susilo, Willy; and Mu, Yi, 2010, How to construct identity-based signatures without the key escrow problem, International Journal of Information Security, 9(4), 297-311.
http://ro.uow.edu.au/era/1476
Abstract
The inherent key escrow problem is one of the main reasons for the slow adoption of identity-based cryptography. The existing solution for mitigating the key escrow problem is by adopting multiple Private Key Generators (PKGs). Recently, there was a proposal that attempted to reduce the trust of the PKG by allowing a malicious PKG to be caught if he reveals the user's identity-based private key illegally. Nonetheless, the proposal does not consider that the PKG can simply decrypt the ciphertext instead of revealing the private key itself (in the case of identity-based encryption schemes). The aim of this paper is to present an escrow-free identity-based signature (IBS) scheme, in which the malicious PKG will be caught if it releases a signature on behalf of the user but signed by itself. We present a formal model to capture such a scheme and provide a concrete construction.