Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2002/136

Practical Non-Interactive Key Distribution Based on Pairings

R\'egis Dupont and Andreas Enge

Abstract: We propose a practical non-interactive key distribution protocol based on pairings and define a notion of security for such a scheme. We prove the security of the system in this setting under the GDBH assumption, and present some possible realisations using Weil or Tate pairings on supersingular and ordinary elliptic curves.

Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / key distribution, non-interactive, identity based cryptography, pairings

Date: received 30 Aug 2002

Contact author: enge at lix polytechnique fr, dupont@lix polytechnique fr

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