Certificateless Elliptic Curve Aggregate Signcryption Scheme

Abstract

Driven by new situation of 'Internet +,' Internet has achieved the integrated development with all walks of life. Among them, the fifth generation is a key technology to promote the deep integration of Internet-of-Things equipment, cloud computing, blockchain and other trades. Hence, it is necessary for IoTs to consider the cost and efficiency of authentication and confidentiality of the communication. For effectively solving the above problems, we devise certificateless elliptic curve aggregate signcryption (CL-ECASC) scheme for IoTs that can improve the authentication efficiency, realize data confidentiality, and avoid the problems of complex certificate management and key escrow. Under the hardness of discrete logarithm and computational DiffieHellman problems on elliptic curve, CL-ECASC is proved to has the IND-CCA2 security (indistinguishability under the adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks) and UF-CMA security (existentially unforgeable under the adaptive chosen-message attacks). CL-ECASC has relatively faster computation efficiency and lower communication cost, and so it is suitable for secure transmission of the information in the previously mentioned environments.