As an intermediate model between conventional PKC and ID-PKC, CL-PKC can avoid the heavy overhead of certificate management in traditional PKC as well as the key escrow problem in ID-PKC altogether. Since the introduction of CL-PKC, many concrete constructions, security models, and applications have been proposed during the last decade. Differing from the other books on the market, this one provides rigorous treatment of CL-PKC.
Definitions, precise assumptions, and rigorous proofs of security are provided in a manner that makes them easy to understand.

Hu Xiong, Zhen Qin, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Setting the Stage. Avoiding key escrow Mathematical concepts and properties. CL-PKC without Random Oracles. Concrete constructions of CLE Generic construction of CLE. CLS secure in the standard model. CL-PKC in the Random Oracle Models. The random oracle model. CLE, CLS and CL-AKE secure in the random oracle model. CL-PKC without parings. Applications, Extensions and Related Primitives. Applications of CL-PKC. Extensions of CL-PKC. Comparisons between CL-PKC and SGC-PKC, Certificate-based PKC. Future Directions. Perspectives.