A kind of signature scheme based on class groups of quadratic fields

Quadratic-field cryptosystem is a cryptosystem built from discrete logarithm problem in ideal class groups of quadratic fields (CL-DLP). The problem on digital signature scheme based on ideal class groups of quadratic fields remained open, because of the difficulty of computing class numbers of quadratic fields. In this paper, according to our researches on quadratic fields, we construct the first digital signature scheme in ideal class groups of quadratic fields, using q as modulus, which denotes the prime divisors of ideal class numbers of quadratic fields. Security of the new signature scheme is based fully on CL-DLP. This paper also investigates realization of the scheme, and proposes the concrete technique. In addition, the technique introduced in the paper can be utilized to realize signature schemes of other kinds.