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SCN 2004: Security in Communication Networks pp 220–234Cite as

Improved Signcryption from q-Diffie-Hellman Problems

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This paper proposes a new public key authenticated encryption (signcryption) scheme based on the hardness of q-Diffie-Hellman problems in Gap Diffie-Hellman groups. This new scheme is quite efficient: the signcryption operation has almost the same cost as an El Gamal encryption while the reverse operation only requires one pairing evaluation and three exponentiations. The scheme’s chosen-ciphertext security is shown to be related to the hardness of the q-Diffie-Hellman Inversion (q–DHI) problem in the random oracle model while its unforgeability is proved under the q-Strong Diffie-Hellman assumption (q-SDH). It also provides detachable signatures that are unlinkable to the original anonymous ciphertext. We also show that most of the sender’s workload can be computed offline. Our construction is based on a signature scheme independently studied by Boneh-Boyen and Zhang et al. in 2004.

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    Benoît Libert & Jean-Jacques Quisquater

  2. Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École Polytechnique (LIX), F-91128, Palaiseau CEDEX, France

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Libert, B., Quisquater, JJ. (2005). Improved Signcryption from q-Diffie-Hellman Problems. In: Blundo, C., Cimato, S. (eds) Security in Communication Networks. SCN 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3352. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30598-9_16

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