Title :
An identity-based signature scheme from the Weil pairing
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We come up with an ID-based signature scheme from the Weil pairing. Our scheme is secure if the Diffie-Hellman problem is hard. Furthermore, our signature size is only about a quarter of ID-based Guillou-Quisquater (1988) signature size.
Keywords :
public key cryptography; ID-based signature; Weil pairing; hard Diffie-Hellman problem; identity-based signature; public key cryptosystem; signature size; Elliptic curves; Equations; Identity-based encryption; Performance analysis; Postal services; Public key; Public key cryptography; Security;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2002.808397
