ID-based key-insulated signcryption with equality test in cloud computing

Abstract

Key-insulated encryption reduces the problem of secret key exposure in hostile setting while signcryption cryptosystem attains the benefits of digitally signing a ciphertext and public key cryptosystem. In this study, we merge the primitives of parallel key-insulation cryptosystem and signcryption with equality test to construct ID-based parallel key-insulated signcryption with a test for equality (ID-PKSET) in cloud computing. The construction prevent data forgery, data re-play attacks and reduces the leakage of secret keys in harsh environments. Our scheme attains the security property of existential unforgeable chosen message attack (EUF-CMA) and indistinquishable identity chosen ciphertext attack (IND-ID-CCA2) using random oracle model.