International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 71 - Number 17 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: A. K. Mohapatra, Jyoti Kushwaha, Tanya Popli |
10.5120/12451-9215 |
A. K. Mohapatra, Jyoti Kushwaha, Tanya Popli . Enhancing Email Security by Signcryption based on Elliptic Curve. International Journal of Computer Applications. 71, 17 ( June 2013), 28-30. DOI=10.5120/12451-9215
E-Mail plays an important role in mankind communication. It is essential to provide security solutions for the secure transmission of email. The currently used protocols such as PGP and S/MIME are based on public key cryptography that involves huge computational costs due to key generation, key exchange and encryption. In this paper, an elliptic curve based signcryption scheme is introduced that provides several security attributes such as confidentiality, authentication, integrity, non-repudiation, and forward secrecy for electronic mails.