Wei Yun① Xiong Guo-hua② Bao Wan-su① Zhang Xing-kai③
①Institute of Electronic Technology, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450004, China ②Institute of Electronic Technology, Beijing 100195, China ③Unit 96610, Beijing 102208, China
Abstract：The braid group is a new candidate platform for constructing quantum attack-resistant cryptographic protocols. A new signature scheme is proposed based on the difficulty of the root extraction problem over braid groups, which can resist existential forgery against the adaptively chosen-message attack under the random oracle model. Compared with the Conjugacy Signature Scheme (CSS) and the Enhanced Conjugacy Signature Scheme (ECSS), the verification phase of the proposed scheme desires less computation because it does not have to determine whether two braids are conjugate. The signature is composed of an integer and a braid, which is much shorter than that of CSS and almost same as that of ECSS.
2010, Vol. 32 
