An efficient and provably secure certificateless identification scheme

Abstract

Identity-based identification, first formalized independently by Bellare et al. and Kurosawa and Heng in 2004, still had the inherent key escrow problem, as the TA generating the user secret keys had full access to every user's secret key. In 2003, Al-Riyami and Paterson introduced the notion of certificateless cryptography, and subsequently many certificateless encryption, signature and other schemes were introduced in literature. However, to this date there are still no certificateless identification schemes in existence. Therefore, in this paper, we formalize the notion of certificateless identification schemes and construct the first concrete certificateless identification scheme.