I just read

S.S. Al-Riyami and K.G. Paterson, Certificateless public key cryptography 2003

https://web.archive.org/web/20181222114112/http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/126.pdf

The math is not too complicated, but I find the notation a pain.

Also, all the fuss over the group operation being additive in G_1 and multiplicative in G_2 seems such a faff.

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