Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive that provides authentication and confidentiality simultaneously in a single logical step. It is often required that multiple senders have to signcrypt a single message to a certain receiver. Obviously, it is inefficient to signcrypt the messages separately. An efficient alternative is to go for multi-signcryption. The concept of multi-signcryption is si...

Multi-signcryption is used when different senders wants to authenticate a single message without revealing it. This paper proposes a multi signcryption scheme in which no pairing is computed on the signcryption stage and the signatures can be verified publicly.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is becoming the heart of many applications. Data integrity and security is a major issue as the wireless sensor nodes are exposed to harsh and hostile environment. This paper highlights the merits and demerits of different key management schemes under the broader classification of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Identity Based Encryption (IBE) and Certificateless...

During these years, the research field of certificateless signature (CLS) scheme without bilinear pairings is promptly investigated as the key escrow problem in identity-based cryptography can be solved via such concept. In this paper, we demonstrate that a certificateless signature scheme proposed by Gong and Li cannot fulfill its security claims. The authors argued that their proposed certifi...

Through analysis, we point out Luo et al.’s and Sun et al.’s signcryption-based concurrent signature schemes have the same defect in ambiguity and therefore the fair exchange protocols based on their schemes are not fair. Thus based on the notions of signcryption and concurrent signature, a new signcryption-based concurrent signature scheme from bilinear pairing is presented, and based on this ...

In this paper we revisit the security models of certificateless signatures and propose two new constructions which are provably secure in the random oracle model. We divide the potential adversaries according to their attack power, and for the first time, three new kinds of adversaries are introduced into certificateless signatures. They are Normal Adversary, Strong Adversary and Super Adversar...

This article presents a new signcryption scheme which is based on the Schnorr digital signature algorithm. The new scheme represents my personal contribution to signcryption area. I have implemented the algorithm in a program and here are provided the steps of the algorithm, the results and some examples. The paper also contains the presentation of the original Signcryption scheme, based on ElG...

This article presents a new signcryption scheme which is based on the Schnorr digital signature algorithm. The new scheme represents my personal contribution to signcryption area. I have implemented the algorithm in a program and here are provided the steps of the algorithm, the results and some examples. The paper also contains the presentation of the original Signcryption scheme, based on ElG...

Certificateless public key cryptography was introduced to solve the complicated certificate management problem in traditional public key cryptography and the key escrow problem in identity-based cryptography. The aggregate signature concept is useful in special areas where the signatures on many different messages generated by many different users need to be compressed. This feature is very att...