Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2006, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 22-25.doi: 10.13190/jbupt.200602.22.shiwm

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Multi-Certification Signature Scheme and Its Application to Cross-Certification

SHI Wei-min, NIU Xin-xin, YANG Yi-xian   

  1. Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Online:2006-04-28 Published:2006-04-28

Abstract: A verifier verifies only both signer's signature using self-certified signatures, but it verifies over two certifications to certification chain in cross-certification, it can't be satisfied with demand in actual application. To the above problem, a new digital signature scheme called multi-certification signature was proposed. The method extents self-certified signatures and verifies three certifications once and extents more multi-certification signature which can verifies multi-signatures once.

Key words: multi-certification signature, digital signature algorithm, public key infrastructure, cross-certification