Performance Comparison of Efficient Identity Based Signature Schemes

In a conventional public key crypto system, the participants must verify the certificate prior to use the public key. The main drawback of the certificate in conventional public key system are large storage, large computing time to store and verify each user’s public key and the corresponding certificate. Identity based cryptography is the new system which reduces the key management process in conventional public key infrastructures (PKI). Any public information such as the e-mail address, name, etc., can be used as a public key. This resolves the problem of getting the public key of a user and checking the validity of certificate. This paper provides a general idea of the Digital signature based on Identity based cryptography. The various efficient Identity Based Signature schemes are analyzed based various criteria like number of operations required for generation and verifying signature, size of the signature and number of paring operations.