This paper introduces the concept of certificateless public key cryptography (CL-PKC). In contrast to traditional public key cryptographic systems, CL-PKC does not require the use...
Motivated by privacy issues associated with dissemination of signed digital certificates, we define a new type of signature scheme called a `Universal Designated-Verifier Signatur...
Ron Steinfeld, Laurence Bull, Huaxiong Wang, Josef...
We study the problem of "privacy amplification": key agreement between two parties who both know a weak secret w, such as a password. (Such a setting is ubiquitous on th...
Security proponents heavily emphasize the importance of choosing a strong password (one with high entropy). Unfortunately, by design, most humans are apparently incapable of gener...
Voting in national elections from the comfort of one's home computer may never be practical or secure, but we argue that remote network voting can be both practical and secur...