Research Article

Cryptanalysis of an Efficient and Secure Certificateless Aggregate Signature-Based Authentication Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Table 4

Comparison of communication overhead.

SchemeSingle signature lengthAggregate signature lengthCoalition attackTypes I and II attacks

Kumar et al. [4]  = 2048 bits bitsNoYes
Mei et al. [13]  = 2048 bits  = 2048 bitsNoYes
Xu et al. [14]  = 2048 bits bitsNoYes
Thumbur et al. [18]  = 480 bits  = 320n + 160 bitsNoNo
Our scheme  = 480 bits  = 320n + 160 bitsYesYes

Note. n: the number of messages.