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An Attack on a Certificateless Signature Scheme

Authors:
Xuefei Cao
Kenneth G. Paterson
Weidong Kou
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/367
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Abstract: This paper demonstrates that a certificateless signature scheme recently proposed by Gorantla and Saxena is insecure. It is shown that an adversary who replaces the public key of a signer can then forge valid signatures for that signer without knowledge of the signer's private key.
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@misc{eprint-2006-21858,
  title={An Attack on a Certificateless Signature Scheme},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography /},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/367},
  note={ kenny.paterson@rhul.ac.uk 13447 received 25 Oct 2006},
  author={Xuefei Cao and Kenneth G. Paterson and Weidong Kou},
  year=2006
}