Everything about Identity-based cryptography

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Identity-based cryptographyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Using Identity-Based Cryptography as a Foundation for an Effective and Secure Cloud Model for E-HealthInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Security for wireless sensor networks using identity-based cryptographyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: IBE-Lite: A Lightweight Identity-Based Cryptography for Body Sensor NetworksCited 117 times
5. Go sideways: Identity-based encryptionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Certificateless cryptographyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• IBE-Lite: A Lightweight Identity-Based Cryptography for Body Sensor Networks

  C.C. Tan, Haodong Wang, Sheng Zhong · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine · 117 citations

• A Survey of Applications of Identity-Based Cryptography in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

  Shushan Zhao, Akshai Aggarwal, Richard Frost · 2012 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 80 citations

• A comparison between traditional public key infrastructures and identity-based cryptography

  Kenneth G Paterson, Geraint Price · 2003 · Information Security Technical Report · 43 citations

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography-Based Authentication with Identity Protection for Smart Grids

  Liping Zhang, Shanyu Tang, He Luo · 2016 · PLOS ONE · 39 citations

• Leveraging Identity-Based Cryptography for Node ID Assignment in Structured P2P Systems

  K.R.B. Butler, S. Ryu, P. Traynor · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 22 citations

• An Identity-Based Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Mobile Payment Security

  O. R. Vincent, T. M. Okediran, A. A. Abayomi-Alli · 2020 · SN Computer Science · 19 citations

• Identity-based cryptography for grid security

  Hoon Wei Lim, Kenneth G. Paterson · 2010 · International Journal of Information Security · 17 citations

• Securing wireless sensor networks: an identity-based cryptography approach

  Piotr Szczechowiak, Michael Scott, Martin Collier · 2010 · International Journal of Sensor Networks · 11 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Using Identity-Based Cryptography as a Foundation for an Effective and Secure Cloud Model for E-Health

  Shikha Mittal, Ankit Bansal, Deepali Gupta · 2022 · Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience · 85 citations

• OMIBC: optimal modified identity-based cryptography for signcryption and private key extraction using fuzzy model

  Sumithra Alagarsamy, Vijayalakshmi Nagarajan, M. M. Yamuna Devi · 2024 · Wireless Networks · 26 citations

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography-Based Identity Authentication Scheme Suitable for Metaverse Environment

  Haonan Zhai, Miaolei Deng, Huanmei Wu · 2024 · Symmetry · 11 citations

• A mechanism to ensure identity-based anonymity and authentication for IoT infrastructure using cryptography

  Suresh Limkar, Wankhede Vishal Ashok, Sanjeev Singh · 2023 · Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography · 11 citations

• A Cost‐Effective Identity‐Based Signature Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography

  Asad Iqbal, Insaf Ullah, Abeer Abdulaziz AlSanad · 2022 · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing · 9 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Security for wireless sensor networks using identity-based cryptographyHarsh Kupwade Patil · 2012
• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
• 📕Everyday CryptographyKeith M. Martin · 2012
• Information and Communications SecurityTat Wing Chim · 2012
• Information Security Practice and ExperienceRobert H. Deng · 2013
• Identity-based cryptography · 2009
• Identity-based cryptographyMarc Joye, Gregory Neven · 2009
• 📕Identity Based Cryptography and Security in a Grid EnvironmentKarun Dambiec · 2008

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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