Digital Communications and Networks (Aug 2024)
Certificateless threshold signature from lattice
Abstract
Threshold signature has been widely used in electronic wills, electronic elections, cloud computing, secure multi-party computation and other fields. Until now, certificateless threshold signature schemes are all based on traditional mathematic theory, so they cannot resist quantum computing attacks. In view of this, we combine the advantages of lattice-based cryptosystem and certificateless cryptosystem to construct a certificateless threshold signature from lattice (LCLTS) that is efficient and resistant to quantum algorithm attacks. LCLTS has the threshold characteristics and can resist the quantum computing attacks, and the analysis shows that it is unforgeable against the adaptive Chosen-Message Attacks (UF-CMA) with the difficulty of Inhomogeneous Small Integer Solution (ISIS) problem. In addition, LCLTS solves the problems of the certificate management through key escrow.