The invention relates to a method of generating an implicit certificate and amethod of generating a private keyfrom a public key. The method involves a method generating an implicitcertificate in three phases. The public key may be anentity's identity or derived from an entity's identify. Only the owner of thepublic key possesses complete information to generatethe corresponding private key. No authority is required to nor able togenerate an entity's private key.
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