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Certificateless designated verifier proxy signature scheme for unmanned aerial vehicle networks

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have a promising application prospect. It is necessary to use digital signature schemes to protect the integrity and authentication of messages in the UAV networks. According to the characteristics of UAV networks, digital signature schemes should solve the problems of digital certificate management and key escrow, guarantee the real-time performance of UAV executing commands, and ensure that only the designated verifier can verify the signature. Therefore, we proposed a certificateless designated verifier proxy signature (CLDVPS) scheme which meets the requirements. We proved our signature scheme is existentially unforgeable under an adaptive chosen message attack in the random oracle model and compared the efficiency of our signature scheme with other signature schemes. We implemented these signature schemes in jPBC to obtain the computing time and theoretically analyzed signature length of these signature schemes. The analysis results indicate that our CLDVPS scheme is more efficient than most of other related signature schemes on computation costs and also efficient on communication costs.

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This work was supported in part by Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. U1405255), in part by Shaanxi Science and Technology Coordination and Innovation Project (Grant No. 2016TZC-G-6-3), in part by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. SA-ZD161504), and in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61802195).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Lei He & Dawei Wei

  2. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

    Lei He

  3. School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Jianfeng Ma

  4. School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Limin Shen

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He, L., Ma, J., Shen, L. et al. Certificateless designated verifier proxy signature scheme for unmanned aerial vehicle networks. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 64, 112101 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-019-2903-2

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