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Strongly secure certificateless key-insulated signature secure in the standard model

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To protect signing rights against the compromise of secret key, the key-insulated signature (KIS) has attracted a lot of attention from the industry and academia. It would be interesting to investigate the notion of KIS in the certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC) environment to solve the problem of certificate management and key escrow simultaneously. To capture the seeming neglected attack mounted by the malicious key generation center (KGC), a stronger security model for the CL-PKC should be considered. In this paper, we first show that the only known CL-KIS scheme is vulnerable against malicious KGC attack, and then propose the first CL-KIS scheme secure against malicious KGC attack, with security proof in the standard model.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Projects Grant No. 61272029, 61003230, 61370026 and 61202445, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. ZYGX2013J073, Applied Basic Research Program of Sichuan Province under Grant No. 2014JY0041, and the MOE key Laboratory for Transportation Complex Systems Theory and Technology, School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers, which have improved the presentation.

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  1. The MOE key Laboratory for Transportation Complex Systems Theory and Technology School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, People’s Republic of China

    Yanan Chen & Weixiang Xu

  2. School of Software, JiangXi University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, 330013, People’s Republic of China

    Yanan Chen

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

    Hu Xiong

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Chen, Y., Xu, W. & Xiong, H. Strongly secure certificateless key-insulated signature secure in the standard model. Ann. Telecommun. 70, 395–405 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-015-0461-z

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