[Resource Topic] 2016/500: Efficient Identity-Based Encryption and Public-Key Signature from Trapdoor Subgroups

Welcome to the resource topic for 2016/500

Title:
Efficient Identity-Based Encryption and Public-Key Signature from Trapdoor Subgroups

Authors: Jong Hwan Park, Kwangsu Lee, Dong Hoon Lee

Abstract:

We present a new Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) scheme from a trapdoor subgroup of \mathbb{Z}^*_{n} for an RSA modulus n. In a trapdoor subgroup of \mathbb{Z}^*_{n}, a subgroup order is hidden and can be used as a trapdoor. Our IBE scheme is efficient in both performance and space. Compared to practical pairing-based IBE schemes, ours is more efficient particularly in terms of computational performance. Following Naor’s observation, we also suggest a new Public-Key Signature (PKS) scheme from a trapdoor subgroup of \mathbb{Z}^*_{n}. A favorable feature of our PKS scheme is that signing algorithm is exponentiation-free and requires only one modular inversion. This enables our PKS scheme to provide the fastest signing, compared to practical signature schemes such as RSA and ECDSA. We prove the security of our schemes in the random oracle model under new computational hardness problems that arguably hold in the trapdoor subgroup of \mathbb{Z}^*_{n}.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/500

See all topics related to this paper.

Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.

Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.

For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .