Document Type : Research Article
Author
Electrical and Computer Engineering Group, Golpayegan College of Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Golpayegan, Iran
Abstract
The certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC) setting, makes it possible to overcome the problems of the conventional public key infrastructure and the ID-Based public key cryptography, concurrently. A certificateless signcryption (CL-SC) scheme is an important cryptographic primitive which provides the goals of a signature scheme and an encryption scheme both at once, in a certificateless setting. In addition to the basic security requirements of a CL-SC scheme (i. e. the unforgeability and the confidentiality), a new security notion called as the known session specific temporary information security (KSSTIS) has been proposed in the literature, recently. This security notion guarantees the confidentiality of the message even if the temporary information, used for creating the signcryption on the message, reveals. However, as discussed in the literature, there are not any secure CL-SC schemes in the standard model (i. e. without the assumption of random oracles) which guarantees the KSSTIS. In this paper, three recently proposed CL-SC schemes (Caixue, Shan and Ullah et al.'s schemes) are analyzed and it is shown that these schemes not only do not satisfy the KSSTIS, but also they do not even provide the basic security requirements of a CL-SC scheme. Furthermore, an enhanced secure CL-SC scheme is proposed in the standard model which satisfies the KSSTIS.
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