### A Principle for Cryptographic Protocols Beyond Security, Less Parameters

Zhengjun Cao

##### Abstract

Almost cryptographic protocols are presented with security arguments. None of them, however, did explain why a protocol should like this, not like that. The reason is that there are short of any principles for designing and analyzing cryptographic protocols. In this paper, we put forth such a principle beyond security, called Less Parameters, which says that the involved parameters should be reduced as less as possible. Actually, the principle ensures a protocol better cost. In different scenarios, the principle is not easy to grasp. Intuitively, we advise to introduce public parameters as less as possible. In the light of the principle, we investigate some signatures. We believe the techniques developed in this paper will be helpful to better some cryptographic protocols.

Note: Some typoes have been corrected.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s)
zhencao @ ulb ac be
History
2010-02-04: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/051

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/051,
author = {Zhengjun Cao},
title = {A Principle for  Cryptographic Protocols Beyond Security, Less Parameters},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2010/051},
year = {2010},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/051}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/051}
}

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