Abstract. In identity-based (ID-based) cryptosystems, a local registration authority (LRA) is responsible for authentication of users while the key generation center (KGC) is respo...
Ai Fen Sui, Sherman S. M. Chow, Lucas Chi Kwong Hu...
Signcryption is a new paradigm in public key cryptography that simultaneously fulfills both the functions of digital signature and public key encryption in a logically single step,...
Anonymity is a desirable security feature in addition to providing user identification and key agreement during a user's login process. Recently, Yang et al., proposed an eff...
If multicast communication appears as the most efficient way to send data to a group of participants, it presents also more vulnerabilities to attacks and requires services such as...
Wireless sensor nodes generally face serious limitations in terms of computational power, energy supply, and network bandwidth. Therefore, the implementation of effective and sec...