Chosen ciphertext secure attribute-based encryption with outsourced decryption

Cong Zuo, Jun Shao*, Guiyi Wei, Mande Xie, Min Ji

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Abstract

Although attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a useful cryptographic tool to realize expressive access policy on ciphertexts, it is not quite suitable for mobile devices. The root cause lies in that the size of the ciphertext and the decryption cost are usually proportional to the complexity of the access policy. To solve this problem, a variant of ABE, named attribute-based encryption with outsourced decryption (OD-ABE), was proposed by Green, Hohenberger and Waters. Especially, OD-ABE allows a proxy with a transformation key delegated from the user to simplify ABE ciphertexts satisfied by the user’s attributes. On the other hand, this transformation also makes it tricky to design an OD-ABE scheme achieving the CCA security that is generally considered as the standard notion of security for a cryptosystem. However, the existing OD-ABE schemes only achieve the re-randomizable (replayable) CCA security. In this paper, we propose the CCA security model for ODABE and a concrete scheme secure in our proposed security model. We believe that this improvement on the security of OD-ABE will lead to a wider spectrum of applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Security and Privacy - 21st Australasian Conference, ACISP 2016, Proceedings
EditorsJoseph K. Liu, Ron Steinfeld
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages495-508
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319402529
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event21st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2016 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 4 Jul 20166 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9722
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2016
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period4/07/166/07/16

Keywords

  • Attribute-based encryption
  • Chosen ciphertext security
  • Outsourced decryption
  • Random oracle model

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