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New identity-based cryptographic scheme for IFP and DLP based cryptosystem. (English) Zbl 1305.94065
Summary: In [Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 196, 47–53 (1985; Zbl 1359.94626)], A. Shamir proposed the concept of the identity-based cryptosystem. Instead of generating and publishing a public key for each user, the identity-based scheme permits each user to choose his name or network address as his public key. This is advantageous to public-key cryptosystems because the public-key verification is so easy and direct. This paper proposes a new identity-based cryptographic scheme for implementing public-key cryptosystem under the security assumptions of integer factorization problem (IFP) and discrete logarithm problem (DLP). The major advantage of the identity-based cryptosystem based on our scheme over other published identity-based cryptosystems is that the number of users can be extended to $$a*L$$ users without degrading the system’s security even when users cospire, where $$L$$ is the number of the system’s secrets and $$a$$ is the number of factors in $$N-1$$.

##### MSC:
 94A60 Cryptography
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