Cryptanalysis of a certificateless signcryption scheme in the standard model

Jian Weng, Guoxiang Yao, Robert H. Deng, Min Rong Chen, Xiangxue Li

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Abstract

Certificateless signcryption is a useful primitive which simultaneously provides the functionalities of certificateless encryption and certificateless signature. Recently, Liu et al. [15] proposed a new certificateless signcryption scheme, and claimed that their scheme is provably secure without random oracles in a strengthened security model, where the malicious-but-passive KGC attack is considered. Unfortunately, by giving concrete attacks, we indicate that Liu et al. certificateless signcryption scheme is not secure in this strengthened security model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)661-667
Number of pages7
JournalInformation Sciences
Volume181
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2011

Keywords

  • Certificateless signcryption
  • Existential unforgeability
  • Malicious-but-passive KGC attack
  • Semantic security

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