Dr. David Galindo

Radboud University Nijmegen, Holland

Title: Approaches for removing key escrow from identity-based cryptography

Identity-based public key cryptography is aimed at simplifying the management of certificates in traditional public key infrastructures by means of using the identity of a user as its public key. The main drawback of this special form of public key cryptography is that it is key escrowed. Certificate-based and certificate-less cryptography have been recently proposed as intermediate paradigms between traditional and identity-based cryptography, seeking to simplify the management of certificates while avoiding the key escrow property. In this talk, we will present an up-to-date overview of these systems.