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An efficient certificateless blind signature scheme without bilinear pairing.

Guofagn Dong¹, Fei Gao¹, Wenbo Shi²

¹Yunnan Nationalities University, School of Electrical and Information Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias

|December 6, 2018

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This study introduces an efficient certificateless blind signature scheme that eliminates the need for complex bilinear pairings. The new scheme offers reduced computational and storage costs while maintaining provable security.

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Area of Science:

Cryptography
Information Security
Computer Science

Background:

Traditional public key cryptography (TPKC) faces certificate management challenges.
Identity-based PKC (ID-based PKC) has key escrow issues.
Existing certificateless blind signature (CLBS) schemes often rely on computationally intensive bilinear pairings.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose an efficient certificateless blind signature (CLBS) scheme.
To overcome the performance limitations of existing CLBS schemes that use bilinear pairings.
To provide a secure and efficient alternative for certificateless public key cryptography (CLPKC) applications.

Main Methods:

Developed a novel CLBS scheme that avoids bilinear pairing operations.
Conducted performance analysis to evaluate computational and storage efficiency.
Performed security analysis to ensure provable security against adversaries.

Main Results:

The proposed CLBS scheme demonstrates reduced computational overhead.
The scheme offers decreased storage requirements compared to existing methods.
Security analysis confirms the scheme is provably secure against two types of adversaries.

Conclusions:

The developed CLBS scheme provides an efficient and secure solution without bilinear pairings.
This advancement addresses the performance bottlenecks in current CLPKC applications.
The scheme offers a practical alternative for scenarios requiring robust and efficient blind signatures.