Title: ID-based threshold proxy signcryption scheme from bilinear pairings

Authors: Fagen Li, Xiangjun Xin, Yupu Hu

Addresses: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, PR China. ' Department of Information and Computing Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan, PR China. ' Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, Shaanxi, PR China

Abstract: A (t, n) threshold proxy signcryption scheme allows t or more proxy signcrypters from a designated group of n proxy signcrypters to signcrypt messages on behalf of an original signcrypter. In this paper, a new identity-based threshold proxy signcryption scheme from bilinear pairings is proposed. Our construction is based on Baek and Zheng|s pairing-based verifiable secret sharing scheme and Libert and Quisquater|s identity-based signcryption scheme. As compared to Wang and Liu|s identity-based threshold proxy signcryption scheme, our scheme is more secure and efficient.

Keywords: network security; identity-based cryptography; proxy signcryption; threshold proxy signcryption; ID-based cryptography; bilinear pairings.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2008.020095

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2008 Vol.3 No.3, pp.206 - 215

Published online: 26 Aug 2008 *

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