TY - GEN
T1 - A light-weight certificate-less public key cryptography scheme based on ECC
AU - Yao, Xuanxia
AU - Han, Xiaoguang
AU - Du, Xiaojiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/25
Y1 - 2014/9/25
N2 - With the rapid development of mobile computing, more and more mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets are able to access Internet. As these mobile devices are usually battery powered, energy efficiency is a very important issue. For most mobile applications, energy saving should be considered at the design stage. Of course, security application is no different. Public key cryptography plays an important role in network security, and it is still essential in mobile computing despite it needs high energy consumption. Considering Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is easy to perform in hardware and needs lower energy than other public key algorithms. We propose an ECC-based certificate-less public key cryptography scheme. The scheme is lightweight and can save energy for mobile devices. Firstly, it does not need certificate to prove the authenticity of a public key, which can save energy for certificate transmission. Secondly, it is constructed on the traditional ECC instead of bilinear pairing, which makes it lightweight and can save energy for computation. In addition, it avoids the key escrow issue, which makes it has higher security strength than traditional public key cryptography. These advantages make it very suitable for resources-constrained mobile devices.
AB - With the rapid development of mobile computing, more and more mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets are able to access Internet. As these mobile devices are usually battery powered, energy efficiency is a very important issue. For most mobile applications, energy saving should be considered at the design stage. Of course, security application is no different. Public key cryptography plays an important role in network security, and it is still essential in mobile computing despite it needs high energy consumption. Considering Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is easy to perform in hardware and needs lower energy than other public key algorithms. We propose an ECC-based certificate-less public key cryptography scheme. The scheme is lightweight and can save energy for mobile devices. Firstly, it does not need certificate to prove the authenticity of a public key, which can save energy for certificate transmission. Secondly, it is constructed on the traditional ECC instead of bilinear pairing, which makes it lightweight and can save energy for computation. In addition, it avoids the key escrow issue, which makes it has higher security strength than traditional public key cryptography. These advantages make it very suitable for resources-constrained mobile devices.
KW - certificate-less public key cryptosystem
KW - certificate-less public key encryption
KW - certificate-less public key signature
KW - elliptic curve cryptography
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN.2014.6911773
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN.2014.6911773
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908200411
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
BT - 2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, ICCCN Proceedings
T2 - 2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks, ICCCN 2014
Y2 - 4 August 2014 through 7 August 2014
ER -