AN EFFICIENT AND SECURE DIGITAL MULTISIGNATURE PROTOCOL BASED ON ECC

ABSTRACT

Digital Signatures play a crucial role today as it ensures authentication, integrity and non-repudiation of a digital message. Many researches are ongoing based on elliptic curve cryptography due to its significant high performance. In this paper we propose an efficient and secure digital multi-signature protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography. The proposed protocol is efficient with reduced time complexity as compared to Chen et al.[14], Sahu and Sharma [18] and Chande and Thakur’s [20] digital multi-signature schemes. Also the proposed protocol overcomes the insider attack as specified by Liu et al. [19] in the Chen et.al’s digital multi-signature scheme.