Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2002/004

ID-based Signatures from Pairings on Elliptic Curves

Kenneth G. Paterson

Abstract: We present an efficient identity-based signature scheme which makes use of bilinear pairings on elliptic curves. Our scheme is similar to the generalized ElGamal signature scheme. We consider the security of our scheme.

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / signatures, ID-based cryptography

Date: received 4 Jan 2002, last revised 22 Jan 2002

Contact author: kenny paterson at rhul ac uk

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