1st Edition

Introduction to Certificateless Cryptography

338 Pages
by CRC Press

340 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

338 Pages 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

As an intermediate model between conventional PKC and ID-PKC, CL-PKC can avoid the heavy overhead of certificate management in traditional PKC as well as the key escrow problem in ID-PKC altogether. Since the introduction of CL-PKC, many concrete constructions, security models, and applications have been proposed during the last decade. Differing from the other books on the market, this one... Read more

Setting the Stage. Avoiding key escrow Mathematical concepts and properties. CL-PKC without Random Oracles. Concrete constructions of CLE Generic construction of CLE. CLS secure in the standard model. CL-PKC in the Random Oracle Models. The random oracle model. CLE, CLS and CL-AKE secure in the random oracle model. CL-PKC without parings. Applications, Extensions and Related Primitives. Applications of CL-PKC. Extensions of CL-PKC. Comparisons between CL-PKC and SGC-PKC, Certificate-based PKC. Future Directions. Perspectives.

Biography

Hu Xiong, Zhen Qin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos