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A Note on Girault's Self-Certified Model

Authors:
Shahrokh Saeednia
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/100
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Abstract: In this paper, we describe an important shortcoming of the first self-certified model proposed by Girault, that may be exploited by the authority to compute users' secret keys. We also show, while it is possible to make the attack ineffective by taking additional precautions, the resulting model loses all merits of the original model and does no longer meet the primary contribution of the self-certified notion.
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@misc{eprint-2001-11512,
  title={A Note on Girault's Self-Certified Model},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={Self-certified, Levels of trust, Random safe primes, Zero-knowledge, Discrete logarithm},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/100},
  note={ saeednia@ulb.ac.be 11933 received 20 Nov 2001, last revised 3 Sep 2002},
  author={Shahrokh Saeednia},
  year=2001
}