A certificateless signature for multi-source network coding

Comparison with traditional network routing technology, multi-source network coding allows the routers to encode the received data and has the merits of large throughput, strong robustness and fast speed. In addition, certificateless public key cryptosystem (CL-PKC) is both certificate-free and key escrow-free. From now, there is no certificateless signature suitable for multi-source network coding (MSNC-CLS). In view of its wide application in practice, we construct an MSNC-CLS by applying the technique of certificateless signature to the environments of multi-source network coding. In MSNC-CLS, the use of generation can defend the replay attacks and the homomorphism of hash function can simplify the verification process of intermediate nodes. Generation identifier can make the intermediate nodes judge the generation property of message, thus the intermediate nodes can decide whether they encode the message. Analysis shows MSNC-CLS can resist the pollution and forgery attacks; moreover, it has better computation performance than the existing schemes.