Certificateless Public Key Signature Schemes from Standard Algorithms

Zhaohui Cheng, Liqun Chen

Abstract: Certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC) is designed to have succinct public key management without using certificates at the same time avoid the key-escrow attribute in the identity-based cryptography. Security mechanisms employing implicit certificates achieve same goals. In this work, we first unify the security notions of these two types of mechanisms with a modified CL-PKC formulation. We further present a general key-pair generation algorithm for CL-PKC schemes and use it to construct certificateless public key signature (CL-PKS) schemes from standard algorithms. The technique, which we apply, helps defeat known-attacks against existing constructions, and the resulting schemes could be quickly deployed based on the existing standard algorithm implementations.