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Combined (identity-based) public key schemes

Authors:
Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco
Florian Hess
Rainer Steinwandt
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/466
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Abstract: Consider a scenario in which parties use a public key encryption scheme and a signature scheme with a single public key/private key pair---so the private key sk is used for both signing and decrypting. Such a simultaneous use of a key is in general considered poor cryptographic practice, but from an efficiency point of view looks attractive. We offer security notions to analyze such violations of key separation. For both the identity- and the non-identity-based setting, we show that---although being insecure in general---for schemes of interest the resulting combined (identity-based) public key scheme can offer strong security guarantees.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2008-18093,
  title={Combined (identity-based) public key schemes},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography / combined public key scheme, identity-based cryptography, key separation},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/466},
  note={ rsteinwa@fau.edu 14279 received 3 Nov 2008, last revised 3 Feb 2009},
  author={Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco and Florian Hess and Rainer Steinwandt},
  year=2008
}