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Comment on “Identity-based non-interactive key distribution with forward security”

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Steinwandt and Corona proposed a forward-secure identity-based non-interactive key distribution (ID-NIKD) scheme and proved its security, and then a forward-secure identity-based encryption (IBE) constructed from their forward-secure ID-NIKD scheme. In this study, attacks are presented to point out that their ID-NIKD scheme and IBE scheme are not forward-secure. We conclude that how to construct a forward-secure ID-NIKD scheme is still an open problem.

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The authors appreciate the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions. This work was supported by Science and Technology Plan Basic Research of Qingdao 11-2-4-1-(6)-JCH, and National Science Foundation of China 41276085.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, People’s Republic of China

    Xi Jun Lin, Ran Ren & Zhengang Wei

  2. College of Liberal Arts, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, People’s Republic of China

    Lin Sun

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Lin, X.J., Ren, R., Wei, Z. et al. Comment on “Identity-based non-interactive key distribution with forward security”. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 75, 1–7 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-013-9886-4

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