Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2006/154

New Public Key Authentication Frameworks with Lite Certification Authority

Xiaolei Dong and Licheng Wang and Zhenfu Cao

Abstract: Two variants of CA-based public key authentication framework are proposed in this paper. The one is termed as public key cryptosystem without certificate management center (PKCwCMC) and the other is termed as proxy signature based authentication framework (PS-based AF). Moreover, we give an implementation of the former based on quadratic residue theory and an implementation of the latter from RSA. Both of the two variants can be looked as lite-CA based authentication frameworks since the workload and deployment of CAs in these systems are much lighter and easier than those of in the traditional CA-based PKC.

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / Authentication framework, Lite Certification Authority, Certificate Management Center

Date: received 21 Apr 2006, last revised 25 Apr 2006

Contact author: zfcao at sjtu edu cn

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Short URL: ia.cr/2006/154

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