Title :
Design and performance evaluation of a flexible and efficient server assisted signature protocol
Author :
Bicakci, Kemal ; Baykal, Nazife
Author_Institution :
Informatics Inst., Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara, Turkey
Abstract :
One method to reduce the computational costs of generating public key signatures on constrained devices is to get help from a verifiable server. In this paper, we propose a (verifiable) server assisted signature protocol, which is the first one that totally eliminates public key operations for the ordinary user. Our protocol is also more efficient and flexible in terms of storage since unlike previous ones the user does not need to save the server´s signature to prove it´s cheating.
Keywords :
message authentication; network servers; performance evaluation; public key cryptography; performance evaluation; public key operations; public key signatures; server assisted signature protocol; verifiable server; Computational efficiency; Decision support systems; Delay; Digital signatures; Message authentication; Personal digital assistants; Protocols; Public key; Public key cryptography; Security;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communication, 2003. (ISCC 2003). Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1961-X
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214284