New (t, n) threshold directed signature scheme with provable security

Directed signature scheme allows only a designated verifier to check the validity of the signature issued to him; and at the time of trouble or if necessary, any third party can verify the signature with the help of the signer or the designated verifier as well. Due to its merits, directed signature scheme is widely used in situations where the receiver’s privacy should be protected. Threshold directed signature is an extension of the standard directed signature, in which several signers may be required to cooperatively sign messages for sharing the responsibility and authority. To the best of our knowledge, threshold directed signature has not been well studied till now. Therefore, in this paper, we would like to formalize the threshold directed signature and its security model, then present a new (t, n) threshold directed signature scheme from bilinear pairings and use the techniques from provable security to analyze its security.     

A Convertible Multi-Authenticated Encryption scheme for group communications

Recently, Wu et al. proposed a Convertible Multi-Authenticated Encryption (CMAE) scheme, which allows a signing group with multiple signers to generate a multi-authenticated ciphertext signature on the chosen message so that only a designated verifier can recover and verify the message. In case of later dispute, the verifier can convert the multi-authenticated ciphertext signature into an ordinary one that can be verified by anyone. In this study, a CMAE scheme for group communications is proposed. This is presented by first reviewing the concepts of group-oriented encryption schemes and the merits of Wu et al.’s scheme. This shows that not only can a multi-authenticated ciphertext signature be generated by a signing group, but also the message can be recovered and verified by a verifying group with multiple verifiers. The security of the proposed scheme is based solely on the DDH problem, which provides higher security confidence than using the CDH problem in Wu et al.’s CMAE scheme.     

Instance weighting versus threshold adjusting for cost-sensitive classification

In real-world classification problems, different types of misclassification errors often have asymmetric costs, thus demanding cost-sensitive learning methods that attempt to minimize average misclassification cost rather than plain error rate. Instance weighting and post hoc threshold adjusting are two major approaches to cost-sensitive classifier learning. This paper compares the effects of these two approaches on several standard, off-the-shelf classification methods. The comparison indicates that the two approaches lead to similar results for some classification methods, such as Naïve Bayes, logistic regression, and backpropagation neural network, but very different results for other methods, such as decision tree, decision table, and decision rule learners. The findings from this research have important implications on the selection of the cost-sensitive classifier learning approach as well as on the interpretation of a recently published finding about the relative performance of Naïve Bayes and decision trees.     

Small sample improvements in the threshold cointegration test using residual-based moving block bootstrap

A residual-based moving block bootstrap procedure for testing the null hypothesis of linear cointegration versus cointegration with threshold effects is proposed. When the regressors and errors of the models are serially and contemporaneously correlated, our test compares favourably with the Sup LM test proposed by Gonzalo and Pitarakis. Indeed, shortcomings of the former motivated the development of our test. The small sample performance of the bootstrap test is investigated by Monte Carlo simulations, and the results show that the test performs better than the Sup LM test.     

Fault tolerant multiple event detection in a wireless sensor network

With an increasing acceptance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the health of individual sensor is becoming critical in identifying important events in the region of interest. One of the key challenges in detecting event in a WSN is how to detect it accurately transmitting minimum information providing sufficient details about the event. At the same time, it is also important to devise a strategy to handle multiple events occurring simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a Polynomial-based scheme that addresses these problems of Event Region Detection (PERD) by having a aggregation tree of sensor nodes. We employ a data aggregation scheme, TREG (proposed in our earlier work) to perform function approximation of the event using a multivariate polynomial regression. Only coefficients of the polynomial (P$P$) are passed instead of aggregated data. PERD includes two components: event recognition and event report with boundary detection. This can be performed for multiple simultaneously occurring events. We also identify faulty sensor(s) using the aggregation tree. Performing further mathematical operations on the calculated P$P$ can identify the maximum (max) and minimum (min) values of the sensed attribute and their locations. Therefore, if any sensor reports a data value outside the [min, max] range, it can be identified as a faulty sensor. Since PERD is implemented over a polynomial tree on a WSN in a distributed manner, it is easily scalable and computation overhead is marginal. Results reveal that event(s) can be detected by PERD with error in detection remaining almost constant achieving a percentage error within a threshold of 10%$10\%$ with increase in communication range. Results also show that a faulty sensor can be detected with an average accuracy of 94%$94\%$ and it increases with increase in node density.     

基于身份的无可信中心门限环签名方案

已有的多数基于身份的门限环签名方案不能克服密钥托管问题,而能克服密钥托管问题的基于身份的无可信中心签名方案存在效率不高的缺陷。该文利用分布式秘密共享思想和双线性对,提出一个有效的基于身份的无可信中心门限环签名方案。该方案能保证不诚实的PKG无法伪造环签名,有效避免了密钥托管问题。同时该方案只需要2次对运算,比已有的门限环签名方案和无可信中心的基于身份的签名方案效率更高。     

一种安全增强的无线Ad Hoc网络门限签名方案

在椭圆曲线可验证门限签名的基础上,结合Feldman可验证秘密共享和一种新型的可验证密钥重分派算法,提出一种具有前摄安全性、参数可调节的椭圆曲线可验证门限签名方案。该方案通过周期地在不同的访问结构中重新分派密钥分片,增强了签名密钥的安全性,同时使签名方案中的门限和签名服务器个数都可动态调整,增强了灵活性和可伸缩性。     

基于身份的卡梅隆数字签名方案

卡梅隆签名是一种非交互式的数字签名,其使用的Hash函数是一种特殊的陷门单向Hash函数——卡梅隆Hash。卡梅隆数字签名具有不可传递性和不可否认性等优点。该文利用基于身份和双线性对的签名方案,结合卡梅隆Hash函数,构造了基于身份的卡梅隆数字签名方案。与传统的卡梅隆方案相比,该方案中公开Hash密钥的所有者无须恢复相应的私钥,且是指定验证者的方案。     

一种局部与全局相结合的微粒群优化算法

分析一种基于ElGamal的前向安全签名方案.该方案满足前向安全性,但在签名者私钥泄漏后,签名是不安伞的,即不满足后向安全性,有一定的局限性.该文引入强前向安全的思想,克服了该方案的局限性,并将改进后的强前向安全签名与代理签名相结合,提出一种新的满足强前向安全定义的强前向安全代理签名方案.     

基于反向代理的网站群单点登录

传统门户网站单点登录解决方案存在着对原有系统改动大、维护代价高的问题,该文利用反向代理机制实现网站群资源的虚拟集中,结合基于角色的访问控制(RBAC)模型及LDAP技术,设计并实现基于反向代理的单点登录解决方案。该方案不需要对原有系统进行接口编写和改造,具有优良的性能。