Towards a Hybrid Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A Review

Priyadarshi Singh; Abdul Basit; N Chaitanya Kumar; V.  Ch.  Venkaiah

Paper 2019/784

Towards a Hybrid Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A Review

Priyadarshi Singh, Abdul Basit, N Chaitanya Kumar, and V. Ch. Venkaiah

Abstract

Traditional Certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) suffers from the problem of certificate overhead like its storage, verification, revocation etc. To overcome these problems, the idea of certificate less identity-based public key cryptography (ID-PKC) was proposed by Shamir. This is suitable for closed trusted group only. Also, this concept has some inherent problems like key escrow problem, secure key channel problem, identity management overhead etc. Later on, there had been several works which tried to combine both the cryptographic techniques such that the resulting hybrid PKI framework is built upon the best features of both the cryptographic techniques. It had been shown that this approach solves many problems associated with an individual cryptosystem. In this paper, we have reviewed and compared such hybrid schemes which tried to combine both the certificate based PKC and ID-based PKC. Also, the summary of the comparison, based on various features, is presented in a table.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: Certificate-based PKI Hybrid PKI
Contact author(s): abdulmcajh @ gmail com
priyadarshi 024 @ gmail com
venkaiah @ hotmail com
History: 2019-07-14: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2019/784
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/784,
      author = {Priyadarshi Singh and Abdul Basit and N Chaitanya Kumar and V.  Ch.  Venkaiah},
      title = {Towards a Hybrid Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A Review},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2019/784},
      year = {2019},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/784}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/784}
}