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Applications of Multiple Trust Authorities in Pairing Based Cryptosystems

Overview This paper investigates a number of issues related to the use of multiple trust authorities and multiple identities in the type of identifier based cryptography enabled by the Weil and Tate pairings. An example of such a system is the Boneh and Franklin encryption scheme. The paper presents various applications of multiple trust authorities. In particular it is focus on how one can equate a trust authority with a way to add contextual information to an identity.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Applications, Security Management

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