Cryptanalysis of an Identity Based Signcryption without Random Oracles

Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive that performs digital signature and public key encryption simultaneously, at lower computational costs and communication overhead than signing and encrypting separately. Recently, Yu et al. proposed an identity based signcryption scheme with a claimed proof of security. We show that their scheme is not secure even against a chosen-plaintext attack. (This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61003230 and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 20100480130.)