Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/1012

An Efficient Multiple PKG Compatible Identity Based Key Agreement for Vehicular Networks

Harish Karthikeyan and Suvradip Chakraborty and Kunwar Singh and C. Pandu Rangan

Abstract: In this paper we propose an efficient single-round, two-party identity based authenticated key agreement protocol in the setting of multiple Private Key Generators (PKGs). One of the major advantages of our construction is that it does not involve any pairing operations. To date, existing protocols in the Identity Based Key Agreement domain revolves around a single PKG environment. Efforts to exploit the multiple PKGs paradigm have placed excessive reliance on Elliptic Curve Cryptography and bilinear pairings. These are computationally intensive and cannot be used when computation is premium, such as in a Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET), specially when the vehicles in a VANET need to perform a large of key agreement. Previous attempts to model identity based key agreement in multiple PKG scenario by Chen and Kundla, McCullagh have very limited scope and provide weak security guarantees. We propose a new security model for identity based key agreement protocols involving multiple PKGs based on the eCK security model which is much more stronger than the existing models and captures additional properties like Key Compromise Impersonation and forward secrecy that were not captured by the previous models. Our protocol is proven secure in this new security model under the Gap Diffie Hellman (GDH) assumption in the Random Oracle (RO) model.

Category / Keywords: Identity Based Authenticated Key agreement (IDKA), Provable Security, Random Oracle Model, eCK model, Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET), Multiple PKG, Pairing-Free

Original Publication (with minor differences): INSCRYPT 2015

Date: received 17 Oct 2015, last revised 17 Oct 2015

Contact author: suvradip1111 at gmail com

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Version: 20151019:205816 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2015/1012

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