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Applications of Signcryption

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Practical Signcryption

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Signcryption can provide improvements on efficiency for public-key cryptographic protocols over more traditional cryptographic mechanisms that offer security functions separately. Notably, applying signcryption in protocols where message confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity are all required is expected to result in protocols with better performance than when traditional public-key encryption and signatures are used. While a broad range of applications of signcryption can be found in the literature, it has become clear that signcryption is particularly effective when

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Cui, Y., Hanaoka, G. (2010). Applications of Signcryption. In: Dent, A., Zheng, Y. (eds) Practical Signcryption. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89411-7_12

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