SPEAKER:
Adriana Lopz-Alt

TITLE:
Bonsai Trees, or How to Delegate a Lattice Basis

AUTHORS:
David Cash, Dennis Hofheinz, Eike Kiltz and Chris Peikert


ABSTRACT:
We introduce a new lattice-based cryptographic structure called a
bonsai tree, and use it to resolve some important open problems 
in the area. Applications of bonsai trees include:

* An efficient, stateless ‘hash-and-sign’ signature scheme in the
standard model (i.e., no random oracles), and

* The first hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) scheme (also
in the standard model) that does not rely on bilinear pairings.

Interestingly, the abstract properties of bonsai trees seem to have no
known realization in conventional number-theoretic cryptography.


LINKS:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cpeikert/pubs/bonsai.pdf