Practical Signcryption

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Yuliang Zheng

   Pages 1-18

3. Security Models for Signcryption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Security for Signcryption: The Two-User Model

      • Jee Hea An, Tal Rabin

      Pages 21-42

   3. Security for Signcryption: The Multi-User Model

      • Joonsang Baek, Ron Steinfeld

      Pages 43-53

4. Signcryption Schemes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Signcryption Schemes Based on the Diffie–Hellman Problem

      • Paulo S.L.M. Barreto, Benoît Libert, Noel McCullagh, Jean-Jacques Quisquater

      Pages 57-69

   3. Signcryption Schemes Based on Bilinear Maps

      • Paulo S.L.M. Barreto, Benoît Libert, Noel McCullagh, Jean-Jacques Quisquater

      Pages 71-97

   4. Signcryption Schemes Based on the RSA Problem

      • Alexander W. Dent, John Malone-Lee

      Pages 99-117

5. Construction Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Hybrid Signcryption

      • Tor E. Bjørstad

      Pages 121-147

   3. Concealment and Its Applications to Authenticated Encryption

      • Yevgeniy Dodis

      Pages 149-173

   4. Parallel Signcryption

      • Josef Pieprzyk, David Pointcheval

      Pages 175-192

6. Extensions of Signcryption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Identity-Based Signcryption

      • Xavier Boyen

      Pages 195-216

   3. Key Establishment Using Signcryption Techniques

      • Alexander W. Dent

      Pages 217-240

   4. Applications of Signcryption

      • Yang Cui, Goichiro Hanaoka

      Pages 241-256

7. Back Matter

   Pages 257-274

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In today’s world, data must be sent around the world cheaply and securely, and that requires origin authentication, integrity protection, and confidentiality – the recipient of a message should be able to ascertain who sent the message, be sure that the message has not been changed en route, and be sure that the data arrives without having been read by anyone else. The second editor invented signcryption, an area of cryptography that studies systems that simultaneously provide origin authentication, integrity protection and confidentiality for data. Signcryption schemes combine the features of digital signature schemes with those of public-key encryption schemes and aim to provide security guarantees in a way that is provably correct and significantly less computationally expensive than the “encrypt-then-sign” method most commonly adopted in public-key cryptography. This is the first comprehensive book on signcryption, and brings together leading authors from the field of cryptography in a discussion of the different methods for building efficient and secure signcryption schemes, and the ways in which these schemes can be used in practical systems. Chapters deal with the theory of signcryption, methods for constructing practical signcryption schemes, and the advantages of using such schemes in practical situations. The book will be of benefit to cryptography researchers, graduate students and practitioners.

• Applied cryptography
• Confidentiality
• Digital signatures
• Integrity protection
• Origin authentication
• Public-key cryptography
• Signcry
• authentication
• cryptography
• data security
• digital signature
• electronic commerce
• encryption
• information security

From the reviews:

“In this book, editors Dent and Zheng consolidate the research work done for the advancement of signcryption technology. … The book is primarily intended for communication design engineers, communication system analysts, and security analysts, as well as enthusiastic researchers at large.” (Zubair Baig, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2011)

• University of London, Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

  Alexander W. Dent

• Dept. Software & Information Systems, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

  Yuliang Zheng

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