PLoS ONE (Jan 2017)

Heterogeneous hybrid signcryption for multi-message and multi-receiver.

  • Shufen Niu,
  • Ling Niu,
  • Xiyan Yang,
  • Caifen Wang,
  • Xiangdong Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184407
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 9
p. e0184407

Abstract

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To achieve secure communication in heterogeneous cryptography systems, we present a heterogeneous hybrid signcryption scheme. The proposed scheme allows a sender in an identity-based cryptography system to send multi-message to multi-receiver in a certificateless cryptography system with different master keys. At the same time, all users are mapped to a distinct pseudo-identity for conditional identity privacy preservation. A trusted authority could trace the real identity when necessary. Compared with existing schemes, the proposed scheme is more practical for actual applications. In addition, the proposed scheme has indistinguishability against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks and existential unforgeability against adaptive chosen message attacks under the random oracle model.