%A Hao WANG,Zhen LIU,Zhe LIU,Duncan S. WONG %T Identity-based aggregate signcryption in the standard model from multilinear maps %0 Journal Article %D 2016 %J Front. Comput. Sci. %J Frontiers of Computer Science %@ 2095-2228 %R 10.1007/s11704-015-5138-2 %P 741-754 %V 10 %N 4 %U {https://journal.hep.com.cn/fcs/EN/10.1007/s11704-015-5138-2 %8 2016-07-06 %X

Signcryption is a public key cryptographic method that achieves unforgeability and confidentiality simultaneously with significantly smaller overhead than that required by “digital signature followed by public key encryption”. It does this by signing and encrypting a message in a single step. An aggregate signcryption scheme allows individual signcryption ciphertexts intended for the same recipient to be aggregated into a single (shorter) combined ciphertext without losing any of the security guarantees. We present an aggregate signcryption scheme in the identity-based setting using multilinear maps, and provide a proof of security in the standard model. To the best of our knowledge, our new scheme is the first aggregate signcryption scheme that is secure in the standard model.